> The EFF greatly overestimates the amount of influence browser makers have.
The only reason the MAFIAA is lobbying the W3C and bribing Microsoft / Google / et al to support their backwards DRM is because the web has leverage over them.
There would have been no market for this if there was not publisher demand for baked-in proprietary DRM at the browser level, because they knew they were constantly losing revenue depending on broken flash / silverlight plugins.
If these companies had not caved to their demands, they would have had to accept gradual obsolescence since the web would have been wholly incompatible with their outdated business model. Because, up until this point, the web has been demonstrably more important to people than access to traditional big media IP, because they were losing revenue and market share.
The only reason the MAFIAA is lobbying the W3C and bribing Microsoft / Google / et al to support their backwards DRM is because the web has leverage over them.
There would have been no market for this if there was not publisher demand for baked-in proprietary DRM at the browser level, because they knew they were constantly losing revenue depending on broken flash / silverlight plugins.
If these companies had not caved to their demands, they would have had to accept gradual obsolescence since the web would have been wholly incompatible with their outdated business model. Because, up until this point, the web has been demonstrably more important to people than access to traditional big media IP, because they were losing revenue and market share.