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by anonymous 4873 days ago
YARLY! If you encrypt content, it's not DRM-protected. When you use a normal everyday encryption solution, you send me the encrypted data, encrypted with my public key and I decrypt it with my private key and then I CAN DO WHAT I WANT with it. That is what the entertainment companies want to protect against - the ability to move the plain bits once you have them decrypted. With any open-source software, you can change it to do whatever you want with the decrypted bits. Honestly, the only way for them to get what they want is to have a piece of special hardware, which you install in your pc, that does decryption of the media and outputs it only via secure connection to an a/v setup that contains a camera which does facial recognition to make sure only you are sitting in front of the PC.

Fortunately, that's still a bit too expensive to consider. Also, it will be broken by the first bored hacker with a soldering iron.
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jshen 4873 days ago
Most entertainment companies accept the current flash based solutions as sufficient. In this case they are trying to bring html5 to te same level as flash.
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icebraining 4873 days ago
Exactly; closed source and patented.
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jshen 4873 days ago
I'm pretty sure something similar to Adobe Access can be implemented for html 5 without requiring us to close source browsers, or patent them. I fail to see why you think otherwise.
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icebraining 4873 days ago
Because I still have faith that the W3C wouldn't sell out to a closed solution owned by a single company.

We're talking about a web standard, not some company's broken software.

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jshen 4873 days ago
They aren't talking about using adobe's software. They want to do something similar for html5.
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ajb 4873 days ago
And you expect them to stop there?
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jshen 4872 days ago
I don't think much of slippery slope arguments.

That aside, not having DRM for html5 would likely do more harm to the open web than not doing it. Take ABC for example, they only let you view their content through flash or through a native app. This hurts the open web more than giving them DRM in html5.

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EdiX 4872 days ago
> I don't think much of slippery slope arguments.

They are already closing the "analog loophole" everywhere else with HDCP and DRM enabled theater projectors, it's pretty clear that's where "content owners" want to be.

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jshen 4872 days ago
That is not what the bbc is asking for here!
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