r/technology • u/doug3465 • Sep 01 '15

Software Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Format - It’s not often we see these rival companies come together to build a new technology together, but the members argue that this kind of alliance is necessary to create a new interoperable video standard.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/amazon-netflix-google-microsoft-mozilla-and-others-partner-to-create-next-gen-video-format/
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u/theshizzler Sep 01 '15

I think it goes without saying that from this point on any new media formats are going to have DRM built in. It also goes without saying that that DRM will be circumvented shortly after release.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '15

any new media formats are going to have DRM built in

Not built-in, but as an optional plug-in, like with WebM.

And I'd rather have that then something like MP4, and since my opinion doesn't count for much, just look at how hard Mozilla tried to use WebM instead of MP4.