Re: What change could we make? (was Re: Letter on DRM in HTML)

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 22, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Nikos Roussos
<comzeradd@mozilla-community.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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.

I was just correction your statement.

...Mark

> 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.
>

Received on Saturday, 22 June 2013 22:46:11 UTC