Rage against the monopolized machine: you should use products how you want Phones we can’t unlock. Shows we can’t skip. And now coffee machines that won’t work with a competitor’s coffee? Don’t buy in theguardian.com, Thursday 6 March 2014 20.29 … Continue reading
“DRM is one of the most salient, and least understood, facts about technology in the contemporary world” http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/feb/05/digital-rights-management
October 2, 2013 | By Danny O’Brien “On Monday, the W3C announced that its Director, Tim Berners-Lee, had determined that the “playback of protected content” was in scope for the W3C HTML Working Group’s new charter, overriding EFF’s formal objection … Continue reading
Cory Doctorow at 9:34 pm Wed, Oct 2, 2013 “Here’s the bad news: the World Wide Web Consortium is going ahead with its plan to add DRM to HTML5, setting the stage for browsers that are designed to disobey their … Continue reading
“A meeting next Monday of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will consider whether digital rights management should be part of the HTML5 web standard. But what’s your opinion? “The future of the Web is being decided at this very … Continue reading
“San Francisco – Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a formal objection to the inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5, arguing that a draft proposal from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) could stymie Web innovation and … Continue reading
“Today a coalition of twenty-seven organizations released a joint letter to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Web’s standards-setting body, condemning Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). EME is a proposal to incorporate support for Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) — the … Continue reading
“We call on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its member organizations to reject the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal (EME), which would incorporate support for Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML. EME would be an irreversible step backward for … Continue reading
MARCH 20, 2013 | BY PETER ECKERSLEY AND SETH SCHOEN “All too often, technology companies have raced against each other to build restrictive tangleware that suits Hollywood’s whims, selling out their users in the process. But open Web standads are … Continue reading
