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

> > I understand that.  What I'm saying is that EME is simply not an
> > acceptable addition to the Open Web, for reasons that have been
> > explained in detail, and with some repetition, on this list already.
> 
> Ok, but also I and others have explained with a similar level of
> repetition and detail why we think it appropriate and valuable for W3C
> to work on this.

Sure.
 
> It would be great if you could find one. What I am missing is what
> help you realistically expect in that task ? Certainly, if I was aware
> of such an alternative I would have no hesitation in proposing it or
> helping to develop it, but I am not.

Well, as I say, the actual requirements that lead to the proposal of EME
would be a start.  This is how it looks to those who don't agree that
EME is a good fit with the Open Web:

 - 'big content' has certain requirements relating to preventing users
 copying data streams

 - they won't make those requirements public (as you've said, the
 agreements are confidential)

 - their licensees propose a technical solution that is unacceptable to
 many others because it necessitates the use of non-user-modifiable
 client components

 - all proposed alternatives (e.g. FOSS DRM, server-side watermarking,
 client-side watermarking, no DRM at all) are shot down as being either
 too expensive or inadequate to the (secret) requirements

In a normal software project, I'd take an apparently insoluble conflict
(the requirement for non-user-modifiable client components) to mean that
we have done a poor job of determining requirements.  

Hence my request for either a real user to talk to (e.g. an MPAA rep) or
the actual requirements docs, which you've told me are confidential.

And *that* sets off my spidey-senses ... something is not quite right
here.

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