What Do We Get for That DRM? - Programming - O'Reilly Media: "What Do We Get for That DRM?
The W3C sells out users without seeming to get anything in return . . . The W3C appears to have surrendered (or given?) its imprimatur to this work without asking for, well, anything in return. “Considerations to be discussed later” is rarely a powerful diplomatic pose. Berners-Lee, best known as the creator of the World Wide Web, seems well aware of the tarnish he’s applying to his creation. He acknowledges that: “none of us as users like certain forms of content protection such as DRM at all. Or the constraints it places on users and developers. Or the over-severe legislation it triggers in countries like the USA.”. . . ." (read more at links above)
W3C's DRM for HTML5 sets the stage for jailing programmers, gets nothing in return - Boing Boing: "As St Laurent points out, the decision means that programmers are now under threat of fines or imprisonment for making and improving Web-browsers in ways that displease Hollywood -- and in return, the W3C has extracted exactly zero promises of a better Web for users or programmers." (read more at link above)
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