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Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Silverlight greatness by Inda · · Score: 1, Troll

    I promise to wash myself with bleach after this post.

    Silverlight is better than Flash in every way and I wish it had gained ground all those years ago. It never ground my PC to a halt. It rarely crashed, if ever. It never hung Firefox. HD video played smoothly; as if I were playing it in VLC.

    I know you guys have problems with it on Linux, Unix, BSD, OSX, Android, ..., but it's so much better than Flash on Windows.

    I can hear the wife in running me a bath. I'll add my own bleach.

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