Re: What is the "open web" ?

> Nevertheless, the hardware itself and the firmware running I it are
> proprietary. I am trying to understand where people draw the line I
> terms of functionality that is ok to expose on the open web. It seems
> in the case of graphics hardware, if the hardware is widely available
> off-the-shelf and can be made using open source drivers to work on
> multiple platforms and support a standard API (in this case OpenGL),
> then this is ok. But maybe I'm wrong there ?
>
Yes, you are doing wrong it here. Supose we condone the fact that
currently it's almost impossible to have full OpenHardware, and more
specially open graphic card (there are some of them, but for very
special purposses). This unluckily clossed and propietary graphic
cards has support for DRM, but manufacturers are some nice guys and
not only have published all the documentation for this graphic cards
and the DRM (that will not happen) but also they have freed their
propietary and optimized drivers, and work actively with the community
(that definitely this will not happen).

So, everybody could be able to access to that DRM system and has a
perfect support with EME... always they have a DRM-enabled graphic
card. Should I be needed to upgrade my computer just to see a video on
internet??? Or worse than that: as it has been discussed, probably
producers will see it's easier for them to has all their videos using
DRM, also if it's not necesary and has removed all their restrictions.
Probably not for YouTube and the bigger ones, but for the smaller ones
(specially the kind of pages that all of us say we don't see but
definitely we see, for example), is it supossed we'll need to upgrade
our computers just to see the free/public/non members content?!?!?!

Or more simple: what's happens with all the more than capable current
computers that we have but that we could donate in some years to our
family members or charity when we bought some new ones? Is it supposed
they will not be allowed to view videos on internet (not necesary
"that kind" of videos, whatever that has encryption, also the legally
bought ones from NetFlix) just because they have an "old" and "low
end" computer (ironic name "old" and "low end" a machine with an i7
and 16GBs of RAM... isn't it?) just because the graphic card doesn't
have the required decoder chip? Will you enabled then a "software"
chip? Will this be still a "secured pipeline"? A "software chip", also
know as "exploit", was just what I had on my old XBox legacy so I
could use XBMC and piracy games... What will prevent us to use
exploits on our own computers? Is not ironic that I could be able (or
would be forced, whatever you ask for) to "hack" my own computer and
break the "secured pipeline"?

Sorry, but no way:

a) you are not allowed to declare some hardware obsolete just for some
political and bussiness based reasons instead of each customer own
technical reasons
b) you are not allowed to marginate poor people just for some random
technical reasons (almost all my computers have been done from trash
and donated parts, and also my XBox came from a sale after several
years XBox 360 was available...)
c) there's no such concept as "secure pipeline" just since the moment
the machine and the data is left on the hands of the user, since there
will be always a way to break or circunvent it.

Definitelly, DRM and EME are wasted time for everybody.


--
"Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un
monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo
Unix."
– Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux

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