[okfn-discuss] Keeping DRM out of HTML5

Fri Mar 22 17:10:53 UTC 2013

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 01:06:04PM -0400, Aaron Wolf wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Karsten Gerloff <gerloff at fsfeurope.org>wrote:
> 
> > Looking at the, ahem, "success" of
> > technologies such as Flash and Silverlight, they're welcome to
> > try.
> >
> 
> I must say, I know this is just a turn of phrase, but they are NOT welcome
> to try more of this. We need to keep working to have a culture that shames
> these attempts even when they are failed attempts.

I fully agree. 
> 
> And that said, the idea of TBL endorsing DRM is destructive. Whether it
> possibly has any utility in bringing the systems to light where they can be
> rejected, if the goal of rejection isn't PUBLIC then it's bad for the
> culture. We can have respectable people telling the culture to respect DRM.

s/can/can't, right?

> This is a cultural battle more than a technological one.

Quite so. If Tim Berners-Lee has a strategy here, I hope it's a
very good one. But I doubt it.

Best regards,
Karsten
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