Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have two weeks to appeal
W3C takes advantage of the ambiguity of what the EME spec and &quot;standard&quot; DRM is. People unfamiliar with the spec may think it&#x27;s the end of plug-ins and a spec for a DRM that is somehow open, implementable and cross-browser.<p>It&#x27;s nothing like it. It&#x27;s a small JS API that launches the same old, fully closed, proprietary DRM solutions. The NPAPI has been replaced with DMCA-protected interface, and previously separate DRM plug-ins are now called &quot;modules&quot; and shipped with the browser.<p>It&#x27;s as if Chrome, which ships with Flash bundled-in, created a &quot;HTML Multimedia Extensions&quot; spec with just `navigator.launch(&quot;com.adobe.flash&quot;)` for launching &quot;Multimedia Modules&quot; (details of which are out of scope of the spec), and hailed it as the end of the non-standard Flash and plug-ins.