Google, Microsoft and Netflix want to add DRM to HTML5



    A few weeks ago, the W3C introduced a draft proposal to introduce a system of restrictions on the use of video and audio tags in HTML5. The authors of this proposal are David Dorwin of Google, Adrian Bateman of Microsoft and Mark Watson of Netflix.

    This proposal is about creating some kind of media extension within HTML5, which will allow the application to control the content. Control will be carried out by the so-called “license server” based on the keys received from the application itself. The purpose of such control is, of course, understandable - to protect the copyright that many companies so desire. Although the document itself says that this functionality is not an attempt to introduce DRM in HTML5, everything suggests that it is DRM.

    However, it seems that not everyone at W3C agrees with the reasonableness of such innovations. Most likely, a lot of time will pass before a final decision is made. We just have to wait and hope for the prudence of W3C, because we all know how well DRM works in the gaming industry today. Isn’t it, Ubisoft?

    Link to draft proposal on W3C website
    Based on Engadget materials

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