Microsoft, Google, and Netflix looking to add DRM to HTML5

While many companies have decided to ditch Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight in favor of the free and open HTML5, Microsoft, Google, and Netflix are looking to add a measure of the former’s rigidity to the snow-white standard in the form of DRM.  The companies have submitted a proposal to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) seeking “encrypted media extensions” for HTML5. Ian Hickson, HTML5 editor and a Google employee, has come out against the proposal, saying “I believe this proposal is unethical and that we should not pursue it.”

Sources: The Register, W3C