Re: I strongly urge all supporters to reconsider the EME proposal. It is not in your best interests!

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote:

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> Le 16 mai 2013 à 02:20, Henri Sivonen a écrit :
> > Comcast, Sony and The Walt Disney Company are Members of
> > the W3C with participants at the HTML WG. So that's already half of
> > them.
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> > HBO is a Member with participants at the HTML WG
> > BBC is also a Member with participants at the HTML WG
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Ok, I stand correct regarding the companies Henri mentions.


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> And you can add and I'm pretty sure I have forgotten some.
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> Apple (ebooks, music, movies streaming)
> Adobe (for providing DRM solutions)
> British Sky Broadcasting (streaming)
> Comcast (streaming)
> Google (streaming)
> Netflix (streaming)
>

For our part we don't make the decisions on DRM requirements for most of
the content we stream. For some of our original content we have more
flexibility, but it is still not a decision that is entirely in our control
(even for original content there are many separate parties involved).

What I can say is that in our negotiations with the legal/rights people in
the companies we license from, the requirement for DRM is not on the table.
So it seems unlikely that the technical representations in this forum will
be in any better position to negotiate.

So, I'd maintain that this is not a good forum for persuading rights
holders to drop the DRM requirement, if that is your goal. A better
approach here is to work on the platform needed to develop alternative
solutions and/or solutions that mitigate some of the issues associate with
DRM.

...Mark


> NHK (streaming, producing)
> Rakuten (Kobo ebooks)
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> So yes things can be changed, as Henri said.
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