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, @04:30AM
Fidonet definitely still has some alive and kicking echos, though as you might expect, most people are no longer dialing into BBS's to access it, but rather go through a telnet or ssh interface. Synchronet seems to be the most prevalent still-in-production BBS server package around, but some of the old ones are kept up by enthusiasts, including WWIV, Wildcat, Renegade, and some of the Amiga servers. Enthral was a relatively recently created BSD-oriented BBS package, though I'm not sure if it's still being worked on.
The biggest issues with BBS's these days is that since it's all TCP/IP, most of them don't end up having much more than the Sysop for a userbase, so the local message boards are usually unused. Some do get a bit of traffic for door games, especially with interBBS play. But when it comes to the message side of things, FIDOnet, DOVEnet, Scinet, Zeronet, etc are largely where the discussions happen, as it's one of the few ways to reach more than a handful of people on them.