Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

Mark Watson:
> Microsoft ship PlayReady as part of
> Windows Media Foundation. In principle, any browser running on Windows can
> make use of the same APIs that Internet Explorer uses to play back
> protected content. The DRM is contained in the Operating System, not
> shipped with the browser.

Which again proves that EME is closely aligned with the interests of
vendors of proprietary operating systems.

> 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.

Thanks for acknowledging this.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Thursday, 27 June 2013 08:05:26 UTC