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Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:45AM from the nicht-ohne-meine-ketten dept.

FuzzNugget writes "In a recent blog post, Netflix details their plans to transition from Silverlight to HTML5, but with one caveat: HTML5 needs to include a built-in DRM scheme. With the W3C's proposed Encrypted Media Extensions, this may come to fruition. But what would we sacrificing in openness and the web as we know it? How will developers of open source browsers like Firefox respond to this?"

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Re:Silverlight greatness by StuartHankins · 2013-04-16 02:00 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I agree it's one more thing. But in this case the Silverlight platform is usually the target of a "Patch Tuesday" exploit patch. I don't worry that a Netflix app will compromise my iPhone. I do worry that Silverlight will compromise my PC.