The web standards body W3C is being petitioned by a consortium of 27 organisations to reject proposals that would make it easier to support DRM-protected media in HTML5-based sites. The draft ...

Kodi 18.0 was released today, an upgrade two years in the making. The new version features a DRM decryption tool, allowing you to stream media content from third-parties within Kodi. Kodi 18.0 also ...

Mozilla announced today that it will follow the lead of Microsoft, Google, and Apple and implement support for the contentious HTML5 digital rights management specification called Encrypted Media ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the industry body that oversees development of HTML and related Web standards, has today published the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification as a ...

Good news for Firefox users that hated needing to use Microsoft’s almost-dead Silverlight plugin: full HTML5 support just came to Netflix. The change comes following the addition of Firefox’s ...

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A proposal drafted by Microsoft, Google and Netflix to add support for encrypted media playback in HTML5, has sparked a debate on the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) HTML public mailing list. The ...

DRM technologies protect content from unauthorized viewing. In the not-so-distant past, streaming producers could use a single DRM technology managed by a plug-in to reach most of their target viewers ...

EFF and others are irked by the decision to include video content-control extensions as part of the HTML5 spec proposed by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and ...

Netflix uses Microsoft's Silverlight plug-in to deliver its streaming video. It works fairly well on OS X and Windows, but it's not a viable option on Linux, mobile devices, or set-top boxes. At this ...