24 Mar
2013
24 Mar
'13
8:53 a.m.
On 23 March 2013 18:23, Matt Giuca <matt.giuca@gmail.com> wrote:
I've two minds about this, because on the one hand, DRM really has no place in an open web specification. But on the other hand, if we don't give them (the media companies) a standardised way to do DRM, they will ignore the web platform and come up with their own proprietary DRM systems, such as stand-alone Windows and Mac binaries instead. Could that be even worse?
If it is standardised (from what I understand this standard only covers a small part of what is required for DRM) then this could be used by media companies to argue that DRM is ok, because it is "endorsed" by the W3C.