»[…]Netflix just announced that they are streaming videos in HTML5, only in browsers with »Premium Video Extensions«. You know what that means – Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).
The announcement is Netflix’s latest chess move in their long game to blanket the web in DRM. Slipping a DRM delivery mechanism into the HTML5 standard is the online streaming giant’s endgame. If the outrageous proposal Netflix is peddling to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is adopted, you can kiss the free Web as we know it goodbye. Where do they get the money to gain influence at W3C?
From your subscription dollars. […]«
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