[okfn-discuss] Keeping DRM out of HTML5

Wed May 15 21:08:20 UTC 2013

Since the WWW 2013 conference is happening this week, and this issue is in
discussion there, I though this an opportune moment to revisit the topic.

Do you guys think the OKFn should publicly reject DRM as a whole, or add to
the campaign against it in HTML5, as the FSF and EFF have been doing? Even
a blog post discussing why this is bad for open knowledge could be useful
at this moment.

Regards,
Augusto Herrmann

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Aaron Wolf <wolftune at gmail.com> wrote:

> yes, sorry about my typo. We're clear. Public endorsements of negative
> things cause more harm than any potential upside of luring your enemies
> into your camp or whatever.
>
> All political positions matter in terms of how they inspire others, not
> just for the technical details.
>
> --
> Aaron Wolf
> wolftune.com
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Karsten Gerloff <gerloff at fsfeurope.org>wrote:
>
>> 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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