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EFF Resigns From W3C Over New Web DRM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is resigning from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) over its decision to standardise HTML5 DRM. The W3C made Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) web browser DRM standard, despite objections from within and outside of the organisation. The non-profit digital rights group the EFF, in particular, protested…
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Netflix Launches New Anti-Piracy Initiative
Netflix is, rightly, worried about piracy, but the entertainment company is set to launch a new initiative to challenge those that might steal its content. A new online job posting has revealed that Netflix is seeking to a qualified lawyer to head up a new Global Copyright Protection unit. The…
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Netflix Launches Official Linux Support Through Firefox
Netflix has announced that its video streaming service is now officially available on Linux-based systems using the Firefox internet browser. Of course, Netflix has been unofficially available on Linux through a third-party Chrome extension for some time. The official support, though, does not require any additional plugins as it delivers…
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W3C Approves DRM for HTML5
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a working draft proposing use of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). EME is effectively a set of digital rights management (DRM) system APIs to protect media which is delivered through a browser in HTML5 or JavaScript, rather than through a plugin such as…
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Next Version of Chrome Browser Contains Always-On DRM
The next stable version of Google’s Chrome internet browser – Chrome 57 – will remove the option to disable Widevine DRM, making the plugin mandatory and always-on. Widevine is Chrome’s version of EME, or Encrypted Media Extensions, which is a web video DRM system developed by the World Wide Web…
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