![]() ![]() All of these companies have their own operating systems, so there is also less incentive for them to support other platforms in their DRM solutions. That means malicious hackers, who already engage in other criminal activities, may freely take advantage of all the vulnerabilities they find in these DRM plugins before companies discover them on their own.īeyond the plugin issue, there may also be an oligopoly issue, because the content market will depend on four, and perhaps soon only three, major DRM services players: Google, Microsoft, and Apple. These plugins have their own security issues, but unlike with the Flash vulnerabilities, security researchers are banned from looking for them, due to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). ![]() Therefore, even a single browser may now require two different DRM plugins to play all DRM content. Firefox also uses Adobe’s “Primetime” DRM plugin. Microsoft’s Edge browser uses the company’s own Windows 10 native DRM, while Chrome and Firefox use Google’s Widevine DRM. Not only does EME require a DRM plugin for protected content, but it requires one for each browser, for whichever platform you may be using. ![]() Perhaps EME’s biggest flaw is ultimately that it didn’t fulfill its main promise to get rid of plugins. ![]()
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