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Fnord666
on Sunday July 16 2017, @04:18AM
from the only-as-strong-as-the-weakest-link dept.
from the only-as-strong-as-the-weakest-link dept.
Here are some links from the past two weeks on the plans to add Digital Restrictions Management technology to HTML5. Maybe there are more links...
- Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C member organizations have two weeks to appeal
- The W3C has overruled members' objections and will publish its DRM for videos
- Disposition of Comments for Encrypted Media Extensions and Director's decision
- A DRM standard has been approved for the web, and security researchers are worried
- DRM Is Toxic To Culture
- How big is the market for DRM-Free?
- Encrypted Media Extensions: Copyright, DRM and the end of the open Web
- Global Web standard for integrating DRM into browsers hits a snag
- EFF has appealed the W3C's decision to make DRM for the web without protections
- If you're worried about Net Neutrality, you should be worried about web DRM, too
- Net Neutrality Won't Save Us if DRM is Baked Into the Web
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 16 2017, @09:54AM (3 children)
So what are the best ideas to sideline this DRM-in-the-browser thing?
(Score: 5, Informative) by acid andy on Sunday July 16 2017, @10:04AM
Install Pale Moon. It doesn't use it. Then don't use websites that don't work. If you're feeling particularly energetic, complain to the website owners about that.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Sunday July 16 2017, @11:10PM (1 child)
Turn to piracy. Seriously. And don't feel like you're being naughty and cheating those poor starving artists who worked sooo hard. Yes, much piracy is illegal. But unethical and immoral? No. There are other, better, fairer ways to fund art. We will get there eventually, but sooner is better, and we'll get there sooner by keeping the pressure up. The worst thing you can do is accept this ongoing attempt to take our natural rights, and believe their propaganda that learning is stealing.
Many large corporate interests are behind this push to ram DRM down everyone's throats. And to end Network Neutrality. It's not just the MAFIAA. It's part of a very big, unfair, and wrong idea that information can be owned and controlled, and its distribution restricted, that it can be treated as if it is a scarce and precious resource no different than a material good. Big Pharma is one of the major industries pushing this thinking. Also on board are automotive manufacturers, including makers of tractors, appliance manufacturers, and many businesses in the technology sector. Ink jet printer cartridge lockout, anyone? How about word processor and office file format lockout? How about the average smart TV being programmed to allow access to only a very small, select part of the Internet when it could easily browse any web site? Most businesses think they stand to benefit by locking down info, and back this push for more DRM. If they get their way on this issue, the Internet itself may become locked down.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:14AM
I think net neutrality is worse because even if movies are of no interest it still matters. And as for movies I'm actually quite bored of Hollywood storylines which too often seem to be Cliches and special effects stacked onto eachother. Some movies are interesting but they are far between such that the effort to grab the occasional one-off on the big bay of bad ships is no big deal.