On 26/04/2013, at 9:38 PM, Alessandro Vesely <vesely(_at_)tana(_dot_)it> wrote:
Injecting DRM through EME is a disservice to web standardization,
since the latter is supposed to foster the Internet revolution.
What does that *mean*? I'm wary of waving around banners like "the
Internet revolution", since they can so easily be misused.
The Internet revolution is the big step after the industrial
revolution. I didn't mean to misuse that banner: It is a typical
effect of industrial revolution to bring many workers to some large
factories. Free-software development, for a counter example, doesn't
fit into that model. I'd agree that the phenomenon is still young and
that the economics of the new model definitely need to be improved.
However, that cannot be done while sticking to the old production
model. Which direction is the media industry heading to?
Watch-on-demand could have been implemented on private networks and
proprietary equipment. However, cables had not been laid until the
Internet took root, and that was pushed by the web. The direction of
history seems to be clear enough to allow taking a firm position.
Well said.
If you haven't done so already, please sign the FSF petition:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5
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