- From: Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 01:23:03 +0300
- To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- CC: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>,Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org>,Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch>,Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>,"public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>,"coordinators@igcaucus.org" <coordinators@igcaucus.org>
Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: >Sent from my iPhone > >On Jun 21, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Nikos Roussos ><comzeradd@mozilla-community.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 02:42 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >>> Nikos's statement "... EME [...] contradicts with Open Web >principles" >>> is rousing but doesn't say which principles those are nor >>> how they are necessarily contradicted. >>> >>> One principle of the open web is "anyone can publish", >>> Can we design an EME system where that is true, and anyone can >>> publish content using it? >> >> Also "anyone can consume", regardless of "their hardware, software, >> network infrastructure (...)" >> >> So for start that's one principle of Open Web (and W3's own mission) >> that EME is contradicting, since it seems that it will require users >to >> trust binary blobs from content providers in order to be functional. > >As an aside, and I feel like a broken record here, the intention is >that the binary blobs come from your chosen browser or OS implementor. That's not answering to my argument though. Having to trust a binary blob in order to access digital content (whoever its provider is) is contradicting Open Web principles and W3C's mission.
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