"Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps

posted on 23/02/2012 09:59 #html5 #drm #google #microsoft #netflix

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A new Web standard proposal authored by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix seeks to bring copy protection mechanisms to the Web. The Encrypted Media Extensions draft defines a framework for for enabling the playback of protected media content in the Web browser. The proposal is controversial and has raised concern among some parties that are participating in the standards process.

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