Re: Forwarded Invite to Discussion of EME at the European Parliament, Oct. 15, 11:00-13:00

A lot of members, sure, but 

On ultraviolet, do you know how many items (movies) are available through their system ?

Tnx

Pierre Danet
Hachette 

> Le 16 oct. 2013 à 20:51, "David Singer" <singer@apple.com> a écrit :
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>> On Oct 16, 2013, at 10:46 , Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:47 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
>>>> So far, we haven't seen a deployed CDM that is like a plug-in in terms
>>>> of the distribution model.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> True, but I would expect that if OMA PDCF ever got traction,
>> 
>> What's OMA PDCF and why would it lead to plug-in-like EME CDM distribution?
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> OpenMobileAlliance. 
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> It's a protection format that's intended to be multi-vendor usable (they include key-exchange, and so on).  It has not got much traction since publication, I admit.
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>>> or as the Ultraviolet ecosystem grows, we might see a change there.
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>> Is the UltraViolet ecosystem growing?
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> They have a lot of members.
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>> And even if the UltraViolet
>> ecosystem was growing, why would it lead to plug-in-like distribution
>> of EME CDMs when the EME/Netflix model makes UltraViolet
>> obsolete/moot? (If you generally watch a given movie once, why bother
>> with the complexity of UltraViolet when you could instead stream the
>> movie once from Netflix and then not worry about file management,
>> ownership tracking or whether DRMs change?)
> 
> 
> I am not going to comment on whether Ultraviolet has a good model, etc., I merely note it exists.
> 
> David Singer
> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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