Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "A new Web standard proposal authored by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix seeks to bring copy protection mechanisms to the Web. The Encrypted Media Extensions draft defines a framework for enabling the playback of protected media content in the Web browser. The proposal is controversial and has raised concern among some parties that are participating in the standards process. In a discussion on the W3C HTML mailing list, critics questioned whether the proposed framework would really provide the level of security demanded by content providers. The aim of the proposal is not to mandate a complete DRM platform, but to provide the necessary components for a generic key-based content decryption system. It is designed to work with pluggable modules that implement the actual decryption mechanisms."

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Re:So what is your suggestion then?

[Intelligenta]

DRM will be required by content providers

Which is why they will never see a penny from me. Unfortunately, nobody else has the backbone needed to stand up to them and say, "No, you are not going to take control of my computer in exchange for entertaining me for a few hours."

Or, they have backbone and are willing to pay some for their entertainment. Don't want it on your computer? Then go see it in movies or be without it.

Re:So what is your suggestion then?

[moderatorrater]

No, it's more like a technician's trying to install your cable and you're screaming about them trying to rape your wife. It's not nearly as invasive as you're saying, and if you don't want it you can just choose to not use their service.

Re:So what is your suggestion then?

[elrous0]

That means you have to make my hardware and my data not be mine.

I'm pretty sure that streaming a movie on Netflix doesn't mean that you now *own* a copy of that movie, or have any right to dictate what the studio does with it. Unless someone appointed you King of the Internet and I didn't hear about it, I'm pretty sure that everyone is free to create whatever streaming standards they damn well want to for THEIR content.