How does having DRMed videos allow big incumbents to decide which legal actives we can and cannot do on the web? Not providing any rational argument to back such a huge claim is a bit concerning.
The W3C decided to standardize the automatic discovery of Content Decryption Modules, the DRM is in no way standardized, nor has any effort been made to do so.
Making it EME a standard opens it up for anyone to interact with it, create new CDMs etc. It levels the playing field for new CDM makers and new software that wants to consume CDMs. Since it is a standard and anyone can interact with it without anyone else’s approval and interoperability won’t be limited to the big players. that is the entire point of standards. that is the opposite of pre EME when only the big players could participate.
nope, nope, nope. the media industry doesn’t have any power over who can create CDMs. It opens up who can create encrypted content (previously locked to the big players) and who can create systems that consume encrypted content, which was previously limited to whomever the big players wrote plugins specifically for. the effect is the exact opposite of limiting or reducing opportunities for small players and new players.
The DRM is neither embedded nor standardized.
The w3C careful considered all these concerns and discussed them at great length to make sure that any valid concerns were addressed prior to standardization. One can read their much more informed and balanced perspective here. and the full spec here. One can see that they intelligently refute all these false claims and the excellent work they are doing in this area, they should be applauded. They are actually engaging in the conversation and trying to address the points of detractors, but the detractors keep repeating the same misinformation and keep trying to inject their agenda into a consortium whos primary goal is to remain neutral.
EME has existed in all the major browsers for years already, it just wasn’t officially standardized. Standardizing EME doesn’t change how the browsers were already doing it, in otherwords it has no real world impact, all the browsers already had EME years before standardization was even being discussed. The sky is falling, well it fell years ago but no one noticed because absolutely nothing happened.
