Re: Campaign for position of chair and mandate to close this community group from Henri Sivonen on 2014-01-17 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from January 2014)

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:20:05 +0200
To: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
Cc: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CANXqsRKvAzGXigZw4fmhgQN3C3v=RXvyuFdKJycFU-v+Kr8eFA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Rüdiger Sonderfeld
<ruediger@c-plusplus.de> wrote:
> Which I think are likely because the EME proposal does not make any
> requirements on the CDMs license conditions.  E.g., Microsoft refusing to
> provide the Moonlight developers with a PlayReady CDM; or the price tag for a
> Microsoft PlayReady Porting Kit ($30,000 and additional $0,35 per activated
> application) alone would scare off developers of many smaller browsers;

A per-unit fee isn't just a "smaller browsers" issue. It's more likely
than *any* per-unit fee > $0 is prohibitive for *any* product whose
user-facing unit price is $0, which is the user-facing unit price of
downloadable browsers.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@hsivonen.fi
https://hsivonen.fi/

Received on Friday, 17 January 2014 06:20:33 UTC