[okfn-discuss] Keeping DRM out of HTML5

Fri Mar 22 16:06:45 UTC 2013

This is a way of getting multiple incompatible DRM implementations hooked into what is meant to be a free and open standard.

I'd rather it was cooked up well away from the open web. That would be good.

Harry Halpin <hhalpin at ibiblio.org> wrote:

>I am against DRM in HTML5 as a person. However, I might add that Cory
>Doctorow hasn't thought things through very well.
>
>Is it better to have DRM-supporting companies come to W3C and discuss
>their
>ideas there, where it can be blocked by a democratic process - an
>objection
>by the Advisory Committee members of the W3C could block Encrypted
>Media
>Extensions, such as Apache - or FSF, OKFN, etc. if they would join W3C,
>which is very cheap for non-profits.
>
>Or would you prefer the DRM companies to go off and cook DRM for the
>Web up
>in their own member-only, closed-door consortium?
>
>Think about it. I would not underestimate TimBL's strategic
>
>On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Kẏra <kxra at freeculture.org> wrote:
>
>> This is important for anyone who cares about free culture. We can't
>let
>> DRM tear apart the fabric of the web.
>>
>> Sign the petition: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
><http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5>
>>
>> Reddit link:
>>
>>
>http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/duplicates/1asm1x/tell_w3c_we_dont_want_the_hollyweb_drm_in_html5/
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