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?

[nschubach]

In this case... I think it's a case of this account having the footprint of the recent troll/"new account every two weeks"/Anti-Google/Pro-Microsoft person that has been around. I mean, here is one of their posts recently. I made up a journal of these accounts and it looks like I need to add another to the list. It was so quiet for a period of time. It looks like things are picking up.