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Comment by throwaway2048

EME is not even a complete standard, its basically just a shim to bridge in a closed source DRM module that can do arbitrary things on the host platform, and needs specific DRM module support from providers. You cant just target EME as Netflix, or some other streaming site, you have to target Google Widevine, or Apple Fairplay etc.

Implementing EME in no way enables you to use these DRM technologies, so its a 100% worthless "standard".

The DRM/CDM modules are not browser agnostic either, and the browser <-> CDM api is entirely unspecified.

parent throwaway2048 10 years ago

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