[okfn-discuss] Keeping DRM out of HTML5

[Harry Halpin]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> This is a way of getting multiple incompatible DRM implementations hooked
> into what is meant to be a free and open standard.
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> I'd rather it was cooked up well away from the open web. That would be
> good.
>

So, you'd rather have Google and Microsoft cook this up and then just put
it in your browser without any oversight? Then, de facto, its part of the
Web and helps the close the Web down.

Possibly not a good idea.

In the W3C, people can at least object and there's a well-understood
process. And I would object as a person, as I imagine many others would.




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> Harry Halpin <hhalpin at ibiblio.org> wrote:
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>> I am against DRM in HTML5 as a person. However, I might add that Cory
>> Doctorow hasn't thought things through very well.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> Think about it. I would not underestimate TimBL's strategic
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>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Kẏra <kxra at freeculture.org> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/duplicates/1asm1x/tell_w3c_we_dont_want_the_hollyweb_drm_in_html5/
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