I wanted to watch a HD Netflix on my laptop, but the Silverlight client had no hardware acceleration so it played terribly. Turns out, there is a hardware accelerated HTML5 version of Netflix that's only usable using IE since only IE has the necessary DRM.
I was quite surprised. Ignoring the potential ethical quagmire here
Let's not. DRM on the open web is bad.
DRM on the open web is an open specification for how to close the open web.
If Netflix had decided to use a standard mechanism to deliver video, instead of relying on closed, proprietary DRM-plugins, everyone would be able to provide this good user-experience.
Not saying MSIE hasn't improved, but enabling DRM on the web is not in any way improving anything.
It's bad. All bad. Bad for the present, bad for the future. It needs to die.
I was quite surprised. Ignoring the potential ethical quagmire here
Let's not. DRM on the open web is bad.
DRM on the open web is an open specification for how to close the open web.
If Netflix had decided to use a standard mechanism to deliver video, instead of relying on closed, proprietary DRM-plugins, everyone would be able to provide this good user-experience.
Not saying MSIE hasn't improved, but enabling DRM on the web is not in any way improving anything.
It's bad. All bad. Bad for the present, bad for the future. It needs to die.