On 2014-05-14 21:46, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
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Second, there was in fact a good reason for the lack of previous
public discussion on this. There were a lot of delicate negotiations
with various DRM vendors involved to get to the state where are now
(e.g. being able to sandbox the CDM). Part of our negotiating
leverage in those discussions was the DRM vendors not knowing whether
we were going to do EME at all, and hence not knowing whether we would
simply walk away if their requirements were too onerous. I believe
that in fact we would have done that, by the way. Unfortunately,
having a public discussion on whether we'd be willing to implement EME
and under what circumstances would have removed a lot of that
negotiating leverage.
What exactly has been negotiated?
A sandboxed CDM that delivers the decrypted content back to the web
browser does not sound like strong DRM.
Have Netflix got agreement to support such a weak CDM for HD content?
What about other distributors? Is Mozilla's EME implementation even
viable?
In what context does the sandbox run, and in what context does the CDM
run?
If the CDM and sandbox run as a user process on the CPU on Linux then
how does this offer any content protection?
Have the content owners and DRM vendors really given up so much?
The EME DRM proponents rejected sandboxing at the W3C discussions. Has
anything changed?
Is the code available yet?
Without knowing such details we can not judge this development.
Jim
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