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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:26AM
Freenet is largely deprecated these days, though somewhat from its ashes, i2p has sprung up. Much better way of doing things than Freenet was (like, you won't unknowingly be hosting kiddie porn by using it), and because it doesn't concern itself with connecting out to the open Internet (like Tor does with exit nodes), in some ways, it appears to be more secure than Tor for doing certain types of things. There's even an altcoin (Anoncoin) specifically designed for use over i2p, as well as some torrent trackers (unlike Tor, i2p is quite happy to handle torrents, as it is largely built on DHT to begin with), some activity on iMule (a clone of aMule, an eMule client), and a decent number of eepsites (the i2p equivalent to onion sites, accessible via the .i2p tld). IRC is very polished on it, as it was one of the major drives to creating it in the first place, and naturally, mail services exist as well. One of the more interesting things I've seen done with it is detailed over at Irongeek.com, where he has a how-to on setting up a raspberry pi as a drop machine, used to infiltrate networks by physically connecting to them and then using a reverse-ssh connection over i2p, getting around the need for a hole being poked through the firewall.
Worth checking out at http://www.geti2p.net/ [geti2p.net].