Am 17.07.2015 um 11:45 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 2015-07-17 11:29, Daniel Bauer wrote:
But some of the rights-holders require us to implement some protection mechanisms that can be implemented only with flash. At this stage, therefore, for SRF flash is (still) without alternative.
But we keep at it and hope to give up flash soon. ...". </quote>
That's it. Rights management.
Users concern are irrelevant, they need to control who has access to the content. They are even tightening the laws in this regards in many countries.
If Flash disappears, they will design some other proprietary platform to do it.
Already done for HTML5. Just very hard to implement for an open source browser like Firefox. The plan is to have a binary blob from Adobe (similar to the OpenH264 thing from Cisco) to handle EME. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/EME https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-rights-management... Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org