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0 pointsmarcosdumay12y ago0 comments

Most browsers are free software nowadays. Their makers opinion is important (yeah, forking is hard work), but not that much.

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azakai12y ago

EME is driven by two browser vendors, Google and Microsoft, in partnership with Netflix. See Editors section of the spec,

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...

Chrome and IE are the ones pushing this - so yes, the opinion of browser makers matter, but sadly the 2 biggest ones, Google and Microsoft, do not just support EME but are the ones driving it.

glhaynes12y ago

This vastly underestimates the importance of the massive number of users running browsers supplied by the vendor of their device/OS.

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