LXer: Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web

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LXer: Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web

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12-10-2007, 12:00 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,366 Rep:	LXer: Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web Published at LXer: Nokia has filed a submission with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) objecting to the use of Ogg Theora as the baseline video standard for the Web. Ogg is an open encoding scheme (On2, the company that developed it, gave it and a free, perpetual unlimited license to its patents to the nonprofit Xiph foundation), but Nokia called it "proprietary" and argued for the inclusion of standards that can be used in conjunction with DRM, because "from our viewpoint, any DRM-incompatible video related mechanism is a non-starter with the content industry (Hollywood). There is in our opinion no need to make DRM support mandatory, though." Read More...

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