Thank you for your detailed responses on this. Very much appreciated.
There are some points where I don’t think I follow your argument.
VenTatsu made the point that while the industry may not be able to control who can create CDMs, they can (at least try to) control who can actually make any use of them.
It seems to me that you basically agree with that. You clearly state that while individuals or small businesses could create their own CDM or software that interacts with other people’s CDMs, in practice there would be no point because they wouldn’t have the rights to the content and couldn’t get it because they can’t afford it.
Assuming I’ve understood your view there correctly (and it seems self-evident), I don’t understand your response to:
I think VenTatsu’s point was that if no one outside of the current big players has any chance of using the standard to do anything meaningful, then what useful benefit has been achieved by having the standard. The big boys could just simply carry on doing what they have been so far and using their own proprietary stuff.
As best I can work out you are saying that while no one (without access to massive resources) would be able to set up a new Netflix thanks to this, there are some things that small start-ups could do.
Could you give some examples? What sort of things could small start-ups do with this standard that they can’t do without it?
