On 2014-05-21 19:24, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Jim <jimtay...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
The parts of an EME based media player not specified are implemented
in
JS/HTML making it an obvious target for a polyfill. Mozilla could have
promoted a standard that has a polyfill that will work on EME enabled
web
browsers and could have refused to implement the EME on Firefox, and
this
would have made this alternative standard the best option for
developers.
There was a clear winning strategy here, yet Mozilla chose not to
fight, and
by supporting the EME have destroyed this strategic option and aided
the
opponents by covering their weakness. Malice or incompetence?
...
I disagree. There are legal precedents in which the contemporary
environment
wins cases. This is a weakness for the DRM proponents and why give it
up?
...
It is trivially obvious. It is much easier for people to sandbox a
separate
computing device, they can just disconnect it!
"Use Chromecast" is not a position that makes sense for Mozilla to
adopt as the DRM solution--like "use another browser" isn't. Suppose
you want to watch a movie on a laptop while away from home. Where's
your TV and Chromecast then?
If you value the security of your laptop and the content owner demands
robust DRM then you will not be able to watch a movie anyway.
If you do not value the security of your laptop then you can accept the
use of an integrated DRM media player.
The user has choices.
A healthy market for devices, including 'chromecast' like devices, could
be options. These devices could be integrated into laptops.
If I didn't look at the From field of the message I'm replying to, I'd
think I'm replying to Fred Andrews regarding his "IEME" on
public-restrictedmedia. A position *identical* with yours has been
discussed before.
This was the only counter proposal at the W3C. Glad someone was prepared
to put in an effort, Mozilla didn't. Was Fred a bad person? His last
message at the W3C was a complaint about assignation threats.
Jim
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