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

> Look at W3C XML Encryption [2] as an example. One could argue that is not
very "open" as I can use it to encrypt that SVG graphic image on my
website. Some people may choose to do that, others take a different path
(and use PNG). However, both seem consistent with the W3C Mission.
>
I didn't know it, and truly seems really useful... Honestly, it was also
just making me to change my opinion regarding EME, so I've asked myself,
why XML-encryption seems to me so awesome and EME so evil? Both protect
some content to be accessed by non-authorized persons, they have the same
purpose... so problem would be in other place. So, first I through was on
media majors and their bad image on their public. It makes sense, but it's
very banal and also something we can't fix. So, would there be any other
diference?

Yes, there is: as I've said, XML-encryption just protect content from
non-authorized people using a key, and having that key you can open it
elsewhere, but EME-CDM and DRM systems what they do is apply a key to
enable or disable the capacity to decrypt and decode the file content,
instead of being a key for the encrypted data. I think that the key point
here is that is not the same protect the data than control the user's
computer, and we should work torwards the first case instead of the second.
That not only focus on the real problem but also it's less hostile for the
user.