these days its more about whether the other browsers are doing, and the standards seem like they “standardise” things after the fact, or in the case of WHATWG, they aren’t even standards at all, just State of the Browsers documents.
So I suspect browsers are happily willing to be non-standard… just not for EME. Besides, haven’t Amazon video and other sites already been using EME CDMs? Firefox has had a DRM checkbox for quite a while now.
with the way things are heading, that’s not happening. few people will quit going there, masses won’t care ad long as they get their newest episodes of medieval dragons land
To be pedantic, those who get their newest episodes (from, say, a certain pirate ship) will be fine. Those who want to be legal and need to watch them from someone else’s machine, will be the ones using EME’s CDMs. Poor amazonians and netflixcians.
You could also wait for the Bluray media key to be discovered, and watch with VLC then.
There’s no real way to escape this kind of DRM now. An estimated, 7 Billion devices are using Google’s Widevine DRM. and the majority of hardware/chipset vendors have supported Widevine since 2013 - It’s already baked into your TV’s Bluray players, Set top Boxes, Video Cards, Motherboards and Monitors.
Want to start a video streaming service 2017?
You have to buy a license from Google to use Widevine first.
so ? A complete disregard of this standard is in order. No legal standing Just a rich man club trying to force feed people something they do not want or need.
I’d rather not tell any would be kids any stories about how crap some things have got. Luckily I won’t have to worry, as the odds of me even having kids are stacked against me.
I really respect that decision. I really hope sth comes out of this…But i really do not expect much. It will be just one person in the middle of a consortium that does not give a damn. I hope i am wrong…