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

> > 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.
> 
> There seem to be some real differences.  It is not necessary to add
> 'support of playback of protected content' to the HTML WG charter in
> order to add a mechanism to redirect some content to other apps or
> devices, and modification to the mechanism would not be circumvention of
> a copyright protection system.

Yes.  I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear.  What I meant was that
the proposed 'solution' of EME + CDM doesn't change anything; it is *no
better* than a closed-source proprietary app sitting in the app store,
and the collateral damage to the Open Web and the reputation of the W3C
will be immense.

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Received on Monday, 13 January 2014 08:55:08 UTC