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Will Google Oppose DRM On HTML5 Video?
An anonymous reader let us know that "Mozilla has committed to not implement DRM in Firefox for WebM HTML5 video even though it is theoretically possible. Microsoft has asked Google and the WebM community several other questions that still have not been answered, but this one seems more important: will Google commit to keeping WebM in Chrome DRM-free? Does our community think that is important for the open web and free software?"
Bingo! Give that man a ceeeegar! All Google has done by starting this little pissing contest between WebM and H.264 is make sure that flash wins by a country mile. Because whether FOSS users yell "free as in freedom" all day long or not the simple fact is there are millions of paysites out there and thanks to the pissing contest they will simply use a combo of H.264+flash.
Does anyone HONESTLY think all the paysites in the world are just gonna join hands with RMS and sing "free as in freedom" around the campfire? HELL NO! We are talking billions of dollars worth of content which we all know would end up on P2P 15 seconds after you dropped the DRM. So no DRM is WebM is just yet another reason (along with no iDevice support) why WebM is gonna bomb. If I am a website owner I can cover a good 99% of the planet by sticking with H.264+flash and simply keep a copy of the pre-wrapped H.264 file if I want to support iDevice users.
WebM brings NOTHING to the table, not better file sizes nor picture quality, and now no way to protect my content from ending up on P2P. Yeah, I don't think this is gonna fly.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.