The wider issue is around digital rights management (DRM) for HTML5. DRM for the likes of music, as anyone who has ever tried to move songs they legally owned from one device to another in the old Windows Media Player days will testify, had a string of issues surrounding it. For streamable content, however, it can be different, as W3C director Tim Berners-Lee noted.
“If you’re going to watch encrypted content, it is safer in the browser where the security and privacy are provided rather than downloaded as an app,” said Berners-Lee. “A universal web must have content of all sorts: audio, video, text, interactive, maps and graphics. Some parts of the web are free and some are for pay.
The wider issue is around digital rights management (DRM) for HTML5. DRM for the likes of music, as anyone who has ever tried to move songs they legally owned from one device to another in the old Windows Media Player days will testify, had a string of issues surrounding it. For streamable content, however, it can be different, as W3C director Tim Berners-Lee noted.
