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An anonymous coward writes:
"In March, 2013 Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, proposed adopting DRM into the HTML standard, under the name Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). Writing in October 2013, he said that "none of us as users like certain forms of content protection such as DRM at all," but cites the argument that "if content protection of some kind has to be used for videos, it is better for it to be discussed in the open at W3C" as a reason for considering the inclusion of DRM in HTML.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has objected, saying in May of last year that the plan 'defines a new "black box" for the entertainment industry, fenced off from control by the browser and end-user'. Later, they pointed out that if DRM is OK for video content, that same principle would open the door to font, web applications, and other data being locked away from users.
public-restrictedmedia, the mailing list where the issue is being debated, has seen discussion about forking HTML and establishing a new standard outside of the W3C."
(Score: 1) by RedGreen on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:47AM
"It's all fine to whine about how DRM and copyrights etc. are evil and nasty, but the fact is that they're something that we have to live with. Whether you're a creator who actually likes to think that their work is protected from being reused and resold by other people, or you're someone who's just fed up with ham-handed DRM implementations, you'll have to agree that what we have now is a big ugly mess."
It may be a mess but no one has to agree to anything involving DRM there are already laws on the books to deal with copyright infringement that can be used in such a circumstance.
"If the corporations who make their living off of music, software, or media want us to respect their claims of ownership they need to do two things:"
No way in hell anyone should respect their claim of ownership they have none. Copyright is a supposedly limited grant of exclusivity, they have the right to use that work for a limited period of time then it again supposedly reverts to the public who granted them the chance to make money from that exclusive access. That is not the way it works now though the content Mafia have successfully stolen that public domain. All the works that should be reverting back to the public who have granted them that copyright are not now doing so due to the never ending retroactive extension of said copyrights, as it stands now not another work under it will enter the public domain ever again..
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