[duncan_bayne]

Oh yeah, and in terms of being a purist - the company I co-founded produced a DRM system for Windows software. It's still in use, and I still make money from feature enhancements and bugfixes to it.

So please don't (like a few on the W3 list) paint me as some sort of anticapitalist hippie tinfoil-hat wearer.

I know a fair bit about DRM myself, which is why I say it has no place in the W3C or the Open Web.

[mcot2]

We have basically two options here. DRM for video and audio streams will be introduced by each browser vendor separately, or we have some kind of standard. I would rather see a standards based approach... This is reality. The merits of DRM really have nothing to do with this discussion.

[duncan_bayne]

What is the purpose of a standards based approach, if one cannot implement the standard? That is the reality that EME + CDM offers: 'standards' that can only be implemented by the company that owns the proprietary, closed-source CDM blob.

[mcv]

So the only solution is to make the propriety, closed-source CDM blob independent from the browser. Something that can be plugged into any browser. Like Flash or Silverlight. Or maybe something more specialized that just handles the DRM with as little overhead as possible, to make sure it doesn't eat up more CPU than it should.

If it cannot be open, it cannot be part of browsers that are open, which a lot of browsers are.