An opening to stop DRM in Web standards

Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
Sun Oct 9 03:24:57 PDT 2016


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Propaganda worth catapulting, IMO.

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Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in Web standards

Submitted by Zak Rogoff on October 6, 2016 - 12:27pm

This week, the chief arbiter of Web standards, Tim Berners-Lee,
decided not to exercise his power to extend the development timeline
for the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Web technology standard. The
EME standardization effort, sponsored by streaming giants like Google
and Netflix, aims to make it cheaper and more efficient to impose
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) systems on Web users. The
streaming companies' representatives within the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) were unable to finish EME within the time allotted by
the W3C, and had asked Berners-Lee for an extension through next year.

Berners-Lee made his surprising decision on Tuesday, as explained in
an email announcement by W3C representative Philippe Le Hégaret.
Instead of granting a time extension — as he has already done once —
Berners-Lee delegated the decision to the W3C's general
decision-making body, the Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee
includes diverse entities from universities to companies to
nonprofits, and it is divided as to whether EME should be part of Web
standards. It is entirely possible that the Advisory Committee will
reject the time extension and terminate EME development, marking an
important victory for the free Web.


https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/tim_bernerslee_just_gave_us_openi
ng_stop_drm_web_standards

=or=

https://tinyurl.com/kill-web-DRM

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