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by rtpg 3733 days ago
So this is about the DRM stuff in the new specs? Didn't Netflix use DRM since the outset?

I know there's some moral positioning about standardising DRM, but would it really affect the 'next Netflix'? Standardised DRM responds to business needs, and companies have already discovered that DRM-Free is a feature, so standardising DRM won't make DRM-free stuff disappear...

From the petition page:

>Imagine a new, disruptive company figured out a way to let hundreds of people watch a single purchased copy of a movie, even though the rightsholders who made that movie objected.

> Of course, it's also the business model of Netflix, circa 1997

This is only true in a pedantic sense. Netflix was shipping around physical copies. Sending digital copies goes by another name: broadcasting! The Supreme court already ruled on that one.

I can't see people being like "oh, yeah, people should be able to broadcast other people's content to hundreds of thousands without the content owner's positions" (Think: this is the main objection to Facebook's Video strategy)

I guess EFF has a position and this is them trying to defend it but their narrative is pretty unconvincing from where I stand.