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posted by takyon on Saturday July 08 2017, @11:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the implementation-is-voluntary dept.

Tim Berners-Lee approved Web DRM yesterday, but W3C member organizations have two weeks to appeal. This was the controversial Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) standard for the WWW known as Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). The last opportunity to stop EME is an appeal by the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). An appeal would then trigger a vote from the whole Committee to make a final decision to ratify or reject EME. As an added difficulty Tim Berners-Lee heads the Advisory Committee.

Also at Techdirt and EFF. W3C's "Disposition of Comments for Encrypted Media Extensions and Director's decision".


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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday July 08 2017, @02:44PM (1 child)

    by butthurt (6141) on Saturday July 08 2017, @02:44PM (#536542) Journal

    > [...] even emacs - that aspired to include... nay, to be the OS** - didn't include video-streaming functionality [...]

    Emacs /ˈiːmæks/ is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility.

    -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMACS [wikipedia.org]

    EMACS by itself doesn't do much; many extensions are available for it, including one called EMMS:

    EMMS (Emacs MultiMedia System) is media player software for Emacs.

    --
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMMS [wikipedia.org]

    See also
    https://www.gnu.org/software/emms/ [gnu.org]

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:47PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:47PM (#536552) Journal

    EMACS by itself doesn't do much; many extensions are available for it, including one called EMMS:

    Dammit, emacs [xkcd.com]

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford