On Oct 16, 2013, at 10:46 , Henri Sivonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:47 PM, David Singer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So far, we haven't seen a deployed CDM that is like a plug-in in terms >>> of the distribution model. >> >> >> True, but I would expect that if OMA PDCF ever got traction, > > What's OMA PDCF and why would it lead to plug-in-like EME CDM distribution? OpenMobileAlliance. It's a protection format that's intended to be multi-vendor usable (they include key-exchange, and so on). It has not got much traction since publication, I admit. > >> or as the Ultraviolet ecosystem grows, we might see a change there. > > Is the UltraViolet ecosystem growing? They have a lot of members. > And even if the UltraViolet > ecosystem was growing, why would it lead to plug-in-like distribution > of EME CDMs when the EME/Netflix model makes UltraViolet > obsolete/moot? (If you generally watch a given movie once, why bother > with the complexity of UltraViolet when you could instead stream the > movie once from Netflix and then not worry about file management, > ownership tracking or whether DRMs change?) I am not going to comment on whether Ultraviolet has a good model, etc., I merely note it exists. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
