Yeah, but haven't you heard?  DRM is dead:

  http://jolt.richmond.edu/v16i4/article14.pdf

On 2010-07-20, at 14:21, Max Carlson wrote:

> Also... Only Flash has DRM!
> 
> Regards,
> Max Carlson
> OpenLaszlo.org
> 
> On 7/20/10 8:07 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>> On 2010-07-20, at 09:26, Raju Bitter wrote:
>> 
>>> Read more here: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html
>> 
>> What's left out is any discussion of the difference between Flash's security 
>> policy (by default, open access to your hardware, granted because you 
>> intentionally installed their plug-in), and most browser's security policy 
>> (by default, _no_ access to your hardware, because there's no telling where 
>> the Javascript on that web page has been).
>> 
>> Once you recognize that distinction, most of the other differences just fall 
>> out.  It's not clear at all that Flash can keep up that default policy.  At 
>> least one major vendor refuses to deploy Flash on its platforms, in part 
>> because of that default policy.


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