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by klez 3367 days ago
You were not responding to me, but sorry, it didn't.

> Moreover, a case could be made that EME will make it easier for content distributors to experiment with—and perhaps eventually switch to—DRM-free distribution.

I can't see how the author made this leap.

> It doesn't matter if browsers implement "W3C EME" or "non-W3C EME" if the technology and its capabilities are identical.

It matters as a matter of principle. It would have sent a message. Maybe this would have made the W3C irrelevant, but if it did, so be it, at least they would have gone without compromising.

I see you already discussed with sametmax about this, so I won't go further.