Re: [GTALUG] End of independent web browsers
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 8:59 PM Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > The material takes somewhat extreme position, but it's curious that there are > only 3 "content decryption modules" out there, Widevine (Google), Fairplay > (Apple) and PlayReady (Microsoft), all of the vendors having expressed some > reluctance to license to small fry. (Apple being uninterested in > sublicensing.) > > https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/rip-open-web-platform.html > https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/ > > Google seems, marginally, the "good guys" here, licensing their CDM to > various web browsers we know, but I'd not assume too much "goodness.". It's > not good to need to be so dependent upon their good graces.a > > I'd never heard of these three technology names until today. Ditto your last comment!!! I'm finding that as the assumption that the web contains all knowledge has become pervasive that the idea that if knowledge is more than 3 years old its been superseded has also taken hold. This means that a lot of scientific information is disappearing - - - - and its hard enough to find good information in the flood of drivel that pervades the web today. Its starting to look like the web is becoming a tool for manipulation of the masses and not much else. Too bad - - - - the promise was for so much more than that! --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [GTALUG] End of independent web browsers
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:59:42 -0500 Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > The material takes somewhat extreme position, but it's curious that there > are only 3 "content decryption modules" out there, Widevine (Google), > Fairplay (Apple) and PlayReady (Microsoft), all of the vendors having > expressed some reluctance to license to small fry. (Apple being > uninterested in sublicensing.) Christopher, I worked for fifteen months at Christie Digital on one of their new digital movie projectors. One critical design requirement was that the movie feed from the internet was to be decrypted inside a protected enclosure. The projector operator was to have no access to a functional version of the movie other than by watching the screen. I use Google Chrome to watch YouTube and Netflix. I try to use Firefox for everything else. I cannot see people spending big bucks to produce Free Movies as per the GPL. If somebody wants to communicate with the outside world, they need to use public domain tools like HTML. -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca jhowardgib...@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
[GTALUG] End of independent web browsers
The material takes somewhat extreme position, but it's curious that there are only 3 "content decryption modules" out there, Widevine (Google), Fairplay (Apple) and PlayReady (Microsoft), all of the vendors having expressed some reluctance to license to small fry. (Apple being uninterested in sublicensing.) https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/rip-open-web-platform.html https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/ Google seems, marginally, the "good guys" here, licensing their CDM to various web browsers we know, but I'd not assume too much "goodness.". It's not good to need to be so dependent upon their good graces.a I'd never heard of these three technology names until today. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
