- From: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 10:17:46 -0400
- To: "piranna@gmail.com" <piranna@gmail.com>
- CC: Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
On 5/19/2013 8:24 AM, piranna@gmail.com wrote: > > > 2. The technologies I would use to do such a thing shouldn't be part > of a standard that promotes openness. It could be implemented, it > could be free or not free, it could even be a standard. But it > shouldn't be part of the W3 standard. > > > I totally and definitelly agree with all this words. I don't like DRM, > but I also think an open DRM platform wouldn't be such a bad thing up > to some degree and in some limited user cases always there's an option > to remove them (like parental control), but W3C standards are (should > be) so basic and generic that DRM doesn't fit there. > > Browsers are almost becoming first-degree OSes in part thanks to W3C, > do you want your OS kernel has DRM functionality? I don't. > EME is not part of HTML5, so a browser can choose to not implement and be fully HTML5 compliant. Browsers will make business decisions whether they want EME or not; just as they would make business decisions whether to include DRM or not (irrespective of EME). We have many standards that are not implemented in the OS kernel. > An adequate comparison would be a DVD that doesn't allow your DVD player to play the DVD unless it is connected to the Internet and has cleared authorisation using a DVD player specification standard that promotes openness. Also, the DVD can disable the pause/mute/fast_forward/etc functions of your DVD player and why not even be remotely controlled entirely while playing this DVD. > > > > It's actually happening with videogames, and in fact, I'm worried > about what would happen with my Steam games when I'll pass away... Or > worst than that, if Steam is the one that pass away and I can't be > able to login again to play my games :-/ This has happened before > several times, imagine now that it happens with all your legally > adquired music, series and movies collection, just a lot of money > going to the trash in just one second... >
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