- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:27:28 -0800
- To: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- Cc: John Simmons <johnsim@microsoft.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, "<public-html@w3.org>" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >> As argued multiple times, it would be a disservice to the web platform >> as a whole to bake closed-source royalty-encumbered technology into >> HTML. > > And who is proposing doing this? Nobody. Nobody is proposing requiring a > specific encumbered CDM just as nobody is proposing a specific encumbered > A/V codec. Please stop making claims that are patently untrue. Sigh. It's not untrue. As Mark Watson has admitted, the CDMs that Netflix *actually expects to be able to use* are closed-source and/or royalty-encumbered. I expect other video distributors to be similar. Unless you have evidence that a sufficiently large marketshare of video distributors are actually planning to use an open-source royalty-free CDM like ClearKey, we must treat the CDM section of the spec as being poisonous. ~TJ
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