Re: Brightcove retreats from HTML5, pushes refreshed SDKs for native Android, iOS apps from Dominique Hazael-Massieux on 2013-03-22 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from March 2013)

From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:01:47 +0100
To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
Cc: 'Andreas Kuckartz' <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Message-ID: <1363971707.10757.44.camel@cumulustier>

Le vendredi 22 mars 2013 à 09:29 -0700, John Foliot a écrit :

> We can either work with them towards an open technical solution, or
> they can go off and do it without our help, and let the chips fall
> where they may. Me, I prefer to be on the inside where I can be
> involved in the dialog, rather than on the outside watching from a
> distance.

But I think it's making a pretty big leap of faith to assume that having
an open API for interacting with a DRM blackbox will open up DRM
technical solutions, esp. since these solutions only get accepted by the
said premium content creators with some guarantees of non-openness.

Dom

Received on Friday, 22 March 2013 17:02:07 UTC