Re: Is EME usable regardless of the software/hardware I use ?

On 6/5/2013 10:57 AM, piranna@gmail.com wrote:
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> Interesting point of view, really...
>
> And regarding to consumers, where's their freedom? They would don't 
> want to have EME-CDM at all, but if the content they want is only 
> accesible with it or not offered on their country (something stupid 
> since Internet is global) they can't be able to choose... And the same 
> happens if DRM techniquest (EME-CDM included) are not legal on their 
> countries and are forced to accept them to access to the content. 
> Where's their freedom, then?
>

Well this is the key question, after all.

I've been trying to establish the following points in this discussion.

1. Today there are no W3C policies which would forbid EME from 
consideration.
2. I accept the fact that one could want such policies.  They could be 
proposed and even accepted in time.  But, simply, these would be new 
policies.
3. In terms of freedom to access content without EME - there are 
competing principles (cf blog post).  I don't denigrate the principled 
arguments that content should be "free" in a FOSS sense. But there are 
principles on the other side as well, that we are balancing when we say 
that we can include EME in the Open Web Platform, but not a proprietary CDM.

> El 05/06/2013 16:48, "Jeff Jaffe" <jeff@w3.org <mailto:jeff@w3.org>> 
> escribió:
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>     On 6/5/2013 10:40 AM, piranna@gmail.com <mailto:piranna@gmail.com>
>     wrote:
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>         > I agree it is not policy.  But it is also the case that EME
>         does not stop publishers from publishing to the Web regardless
>         of the software they use.  And EME does not stop access to the
>         web from any kind of hardware that can connect to the Internet.
>         >
>         Except related directly to EME... up to this point, it seems
>         probably you will not freely be able to publish or access to
>         EME-CDM based content without requesting permission to third
>         party elements or special (signed) hardware... I truly believe
>         this conflict with the previously remarked W3C statements...
>
>
>     It is true that the you will not be freely able to publish EME-CDM
>     content without requesting permission.
>
>     But the passage in question is "We should be able to publish
>     regardless of the software we use".  It does not say anything
>     about being able to publish EME-CDM content.  I would tell such
>     publishers that they get their freedom to publish by simply not
>     using DRM.  Of course, if they want to use DRM - that's their
>     choice - but then they lose their freedom.  (This is true today by
>     the way, even without EME.)
>
>