- From: <piranna@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 18:09:41 +0200
- To: Zak Fenton <zak.fenton@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
> Browsers are big enough already. You should implement *your* DRM pipeline in > *your* apps instead, because it is not welcome in *my* browser and has > absolutely no place in *our* web standards. You may argue that I can choose > not to watch DRM content or install third party DRM components, but this is > actually the choice I have today. Tomorrow my choice might be between > accessing the DRM-centric web, awash with a wide variety of untrusted > installable components, and accessing only Wikipedia and torrent sites. Or in other words, do you believe this will be sometime implemented outside of Safari, Internet Explorer and maybe Chrome? I'm totally sure that EME or any DRM based technology will not be integrated on Mozilla Firefox, and probably Chromium, too. And if so, don't worry that there will be a lot of browsers that will not implement it, both smaller ones that can be up to the latest standards and also some patched versions of the biggest ones that will remove this functionality. At least Debian would be one of this "free" OS with "free" browsers, and this will split the web in two kinds of users, the ones with EME/DRM enabled browsers, and the ones with them removed. Do you think this is a move towards to a "better", unified internet? I don't think so, this is more a move to Richard Stallman's dystopic world on "the right to read" (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html). With this I want to say that EME and all related DRM work is not towards to improve the Internet experience on user browsers, but instead is a movement to limit it, and since you depend on browser developers to implement the EME specification, it's up to their decision to do it, and except they are paid for it (it's said, Microsoft, Apple and probably Google), they probably will not do it on Mozilla or other open browsers except if it's widely extended, and if so, it would be like browsers started to mimic Internet Explorer 6 functionality circa year 2000 just because it was the most widely used browser. Do you want an Internet developed toward companies requeriments instead of real developed requeriments? I don't. -- "Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo Unix." – Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux
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