Re: Campaign for position of chair and mandate to close this community group

> Unfortunately the EME
> proponents are just not interested - for now they are pushing to
> integrate tightly with the web.  If the W3C were to remove content
> protection from the charter and shutdown the work on the EME tomorrow
> then the EME proponents could just roll over to this solution and still
> solve their use case - we would have a much better outcome for security
> and privacy, and keep the web discussion open and free of mis-features.  
>  What do people opposed to DRM in this group think?   This still promotes
> DRM, but not on the web, and solves some significant issues.  Am I still
> misunderstanding some important points?

In fact, my understanding is that the solution you describe (individual
apps, silo'd in their respective ecosystems / app-stores) is exactly the
situation that people are trying to fix with EME.

Of course, the solution of EME + closed source, proprietary, hardware-
and OS-tied CDM is technologically and socially identical to having
playback apps.  But not everyone agrees.

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Received on Monday, 13 January 2014 05:35:11 UTC