On Fri 26/Apr/2013 21:59:52 +0200 Brian E Carpenter wrote:
3. EME should have a very low or zero cost of entry for a content provider.
Quoting from a commenter on The Register:
"The DRM mechanism must allow *individuals* (or small groups) a
low-cost low-hassle way to use it. That's because the way to destroy
the various evil DRM empires is not to steal content - it's to allow
creators to manage the sale of their own creations without needing a
big bad bloodsucker to "help" them. That means a DRM system that anybody
can use to protect their own stuff."
A DRM add-on that individuals or small groups use to protect their
stuff seems to be a chimera. Manu Sporny [1] points out that even
Microsoft is unable to support Silverlight on Internet Explorer 8 on
older versions of their operating system and the latest version of
Chrome on certain versions of Windows and Mac. Can small groups be
expected to do better?
A comparison with youtube suggests that yet another software barrier
is not what small media producers really need.
[1] http://manu.sporny.org/2013/drm-in-html5/
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