Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 16:43 -0700, Mark Watson wrote:
> 
> You are right that a CDM that implements all the capabilities of the
> DRM itself, in software, without making use of platform APIs for that
> purpose, couldn't be Free Software as it is required to be
> non-user-modifiable. 

This statement also assumes that the platform that the CDM is running on
has APIs that support Digital Restrictions Management. If that's the
case then then something running in the OS isn't Free Software either
and there is a required compromise for this solution as well. You're
just moving the non-free software to a different part of the system.


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