Around 15,000 people have already signed a petition against DRM in HTML5 .Now the various organizations working for the freedom of the Internet, in a contact open letter to the W3C CEO Tim Berners-Lee have sent their demand: Cancel DRM as it may hold a collection in web standards.
The Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) had a disastrous proposal to fundamentally change the HTML and encourage the use of copy protection systems, among others-- warn the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Knowledge Foundation and Creative Commons. In their view, it is mainly a few big companies like Microsoft and Netflix, who work for EME. And they had already shown in the past that they support DRM systems to maintain their close relationships with major media companies. In addition to Microsoft and Netflix and Google is working on the specification of EME.
The signatories under the Defective by Design published letter speaking fundamentally opposed to DRM systems, as they will restrict the freedom of users and some only provide a few advantages.
The argument that EME is not itself a DRM system, and therefore, in accordance with the principles of the W3C, reject the signatories, because EME have no other purpose than to allow DRM systems on the Web.
Netflix offering movies and series via streaming, has announced just recently switch from Microsoft's Silverlight to HTML5 and participates to the development of the relevant W3C specifications: MediaSource Extensions (MSE) , Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and Web Cryptography API (Webcrypto) , also known together as Netflix Premium HTML5 video extensions. As the first MSE Google's Chrome browser and EME supports the new techniques so that Netflix for Samsung Chromebook with ARM processor can offer a HTML5 player. A HTML5 player for Windows and Mac OS is currently being tested at Netflix.
If Your Browser and internet was controlled by the copyright Troll , will you use it?? Give your thoughts below.....