from a privacy standpoint.
There are a few names curiously absent from the list. Google, considering Youtube is the top streaming video provider on the Web. AMD/ATI and nVidia, considering the "digital hole" that could create on a PC-based viewer.
In the end what we will see is yet another DRM "standard" that will continue to soak up resources, require assinine constraints, be user unfriendly, drive up costs, and yes, be ultimately ineffective in preventing consumers from using alternatives that are more to their liking.
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