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We already have those, in the form of Flash and Silverlight. It would be good to move to technologies that work on all platforms.

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What makes you think this will? This standard would still require proprietary binary blobs to be built for every platform that the DRM creator cares to support.

Because the onus to create it is suddenly in the streamers hands instead of Microsoft or Adobe's.

Netflix has a hell of a lot more reasons to make their DRM bit work in Linux than Adobe and way, way more reasons than Microsoft.

How many more Linux users do you think that they could actually add too their user list if they supported Linux?

I mean, I am a Linux user and I give them my money anyway. I expect most others do as well.

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