I agree with this. I've voiced as much at the last AC meeting.
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I'd rather have a justification for why x million videos need this other than Warner Bros & chums views. It's a paper thin piracy protection
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Replying to @KingstonTime @torgo and
It's simple: they don't. But we haven't convinced them and we've lacked the leverage. So far.
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Replying to @robinberjon @torgo and
Standardising content restrictions doesn't seem a way to reducing them. They might co-exist on the "same platform" but how does this help?
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Flash/Silverlight/Java on the web is dying, are we expecting them to not internet / create a different internet?
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Replying to @KingstonTime @torgo and
They'll stop dying. Or it'll go to apps. We just don't have the leverage to boycott that content. It's not a credible threat.
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Replying to @robinberjon @KingstonTime and
Going to apps seems fine? As far as I know some of it won’t be licensed for the web anyway, because the DRM is not “good” enough.
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Replying to @annevk @robinberjon and
Apps aren't that great in the desktop security model. Giving full code execution to the streaming companies.
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Replying to @hsivonen @robinberjon and
And they are harder to distribute. Both would be competitive advantages for producers that did not care for DRM.
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But not large enough of an advantage in a world of utility-computing and hw/service integration (which we now live in)
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Gotta keep the counterfactuals straight. We're not going back to browsers on Win/Linux for most time spent.
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