On Aug 15, 2013, at 23:20 , Andreas Kuckartz <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Singer: >> >> On Aug 15, 2013, at 21:05 , Duncan Bayne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have this image in my mind of a World Wide Automobile Consortium being >>> asked by buggy manufacturers to limit the top speed of their cars to >>> 10km/h in order to avoid rendering buggy makers insolvent. >> >> >> No, it is more like the people objecting to enclosed shops, where >> pilfering is much harder then when the same goods are sold from open >> stalls in a market. > > You probably meant to write this: > > Enclosed shops which are operated in the homes of the customers and > might be watching and listening to them on behalf of companies and/or > secret agencies (again: Google Widevine is promoting "silent monitoring"). No, I didn't. The ability to watch what you are doing online, and the desire to only supply content into protected environments are basically orthogonal. I assure you DRMs are not needed to do online monitoring (and to the extent that they use more encryption, protected channels, and so on, they might even get in the way to some extent). David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
