Important: Petition against DRM in W3C's HTML5 specification

Important: Petition against DRM in W3C's HTML5 specification

Matt Bury གིས-
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This is important. This is handing control of the web and your web browsers to the media corporations; the ones who failed to bring you SOPA and PIPA and are trying to underhandedly force through other legislation undemocratically. By all accounts, they're not very nice people and tend to want to micromanage every aspect of your lives and charge you substantial amounts of money for the privilege. Their latest attempt?

According to the EFF...

Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards

Update, 2013-3-21: you can take action against DRM at the W3C by joining Defective By Design's campaign.

 

According to Cory Doctorow...

What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM:

Adding DRM to the HTML standard will have far-reaching effects, incompatible with the W3C's most important policies

 

Here's the petition.

And in French: Dites au W3C : nous ne voulons pas d'un Hollyweb.

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Re: Important: Petition against DRM in W3C's HTML5 specification

Visvanath Ratnaweera གིས-
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Matt

Thanks for bringing this. I signed the petition, naturally (and confirmed the e-mail).

The whole affair remined me of the zig zag W3C did with its HTML standards. So they are already bought?

I sat in a committe of a well known organization for standardization. I know what "bought up* means. It means executives in immaculate suits licking boots.
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Re: Important: Petition against DRM in W3C's HTML5 specification

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Visvanath "It means executives in immaculate suits licking boots."

Your suit cannot remain immaculate for long if you lie on the ground licking boots.ངན་པ་

Joseph

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Re: Important: Petition against DRM in W3C's HTML5 specification

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Joseph, I can only point out that neither you nor I are an obscenely over-paid executive. Perhaps we are both missing this vital career skill?

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Re: Important: Petition against DRM in W3C's HTML5 specification

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Josef

> Your suit cannot remain immaculate for long if you lie on the ground licking boots

Ha! Ha! Ha! Highly philosophical. My thought of the day!

P.S. Now I know, I should have walked out a happy man, considering my casual dress. What a twist!
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Re: Important: Petition against DRM in W3C's HTML5 specification

Tim Hunt གིས-
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Here is an excellent summary of what is wrong with patent law now: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130424201754688

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Re: Important: Petition against DRM in W3C's HTML5 specification

Matt Bury གིས-
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The Free Culture Foundation has joined in:

Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users.

http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/04/23/dont-let-the-myths-fool-you-the-w3cs-plan-for-drm-in-html5-is-a-betrayal-to-all-web-users/

Enjoy! དགའ་འཛུམ་

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Re: Important: Petition against DRM in W3C's HTML5 specification

Visvanath Ratnaweera གིས-
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The protest is picking up momentum. All the popular on-line news sites here have it: Spiegel Online, Heise Newsticker, ZDNet, Golem.de, etc. Hope the Moodle community will join in the petition.

BTW, http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/mar/12/tim-berners-lee-drm-cory-doctorow story is epic, not only Homer's gods made mistakes!
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Today Is International Day Against DRM

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/03/1235212/today-is-international-day-against-drm
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Re: Today Is International Day Against DRM

Matt Bury གིས-
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I'm sorry Visvanath, I'm afraid I can't let you do that.

Mmm... I'm seem to remember accountability being an important issue once. If auditing software becomes a criminal act...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ#Rootkit_discovery_and_media_attention

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DRM in HTML5

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Hi Matt

Do you mean, machines taking over the mankind? That is gloomy, I prefer the Rama series.

Anyway TBL now has another heavy weight as enemy, RMS!
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/02/1711220/rms-urges-w3c-to-reject-on-principle-drm-in-html5

Looks like W3C is unimpressed:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/11/1210208/drm-in-html5-better-than-the-alternative
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Re: DRM in HTML5

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Ah, I was waiting for St. Ingnutius to weigh in on this one. He usually knocks the nail on the head in no uncertain terms.

I don't see why media companies can't bite the bullet and use apps and plugins... or perhaps they're seeking to gain yet more control over our computing devices? Could you imagine a world where everyone's computers are controlled by Hollywood's lawyers? Of course, they'd also want to know everything about everything you ever do so they'd also put in spyware for "enforcement" purposes and make sure you can't ever turn in off. Sound familiar?

Big Brother

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Re: DRM in HTML5

Matt Bury གིས-
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Just as I'm thinking about this and wondering if I'm just being paranoid or at least overly cautious: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57583843-38/apple-deluged-by-police-demands-to-decrypt-iphones/ We should regard our mobile devices as compromised from the moment we open the box and turn them on... unless of course you know how to root it and install a "clean" operating system on it.

Remember that the FBI and other security agencies in the US have long and dark histories of harrassing and persecuting people for their political beliefs. Just imagine what happens in countries with even less liberal and egalitarian regimes.

Who really wants this and why?

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Re: DRM in HTML5

Visvanath Ratnaweera གིས-
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Indeed!

"EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM In HTML5"
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/30/0217220/eff-makes-formal-objection-to-drm-in-html5
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Re: DRM in HTML5

Matt Bury གིས-
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Thanks Visvanath!

The discussions on that thread pretty much cover it. DRM and media corporations' current practices seems to encourage piracy, even in those that'd prefer to stay on the straight and narrow.

I sometimes meet retirees and old academics that want to know the best ways to get hold of pirated media now! My guess is that they've tried or have read/heard about the legitimate/legal ways and are unhappy about them.

It's a bit like when Apple Inc. demanded that Google change its search algorithms because iTunes' products weren't showing up near the top of search results. The difference here is that the media corporations want *everyone* to change their behaviour to suit their current restrictive and inconvenient practices.

Piracy isn't their problem. The problem is that they're getting boycotted by a lot of would be customers.

 

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