Thread: Adobe Stocks slammed after their announcement to forgo mobile flash development
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Old 11-13-2011, 06:02 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
ie, what are you going to lose by playing your videos through HTML5 rather than Flash?
Content.

There is no way that HTML5 Video is viable for playing copyrighted video in the mainstream.

It lacks any form of DRM and implementing one would be absolutely impossible given the openness of HTML5.

While it would be nice to get rid of DRM completely, a large amount of content that people stream online is either rented or borrowed - they don't own it.

Flash Player works well for this purpose, simply because it's closed source.
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