DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C

Re:DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C by shmerl on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:13PM (#11301965)

DRM is a disease. They might mitigate symptoms (corrupted anti-circumvention laws), but this sickness must be uprooted at its source to be really fixed. W3C made a great disservice for the Web by accepting DRM in the standard legitimizing it in the process.

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Re:DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C by njharman on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:17AM (#11302714)

DRM is a symptom. Perpetual copyright is the diseas.

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Re:DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C by tremon on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:47AM (#11303980)

The disease is using technical measures to enforce laws.

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Re:DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C by njharman on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:44PM (#11309513)

yeah, I don't know. For an imagined law "government can't violate privacy" I'd feel much better with strong encryption (a technical measure) then trusting government to prosecute and jail its employees when they violate law.

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Re:DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C by d0lph on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:59AM (#11304034)

Using technical measure to enforce law is a necessity, the over-stepping of bounds is the disease.

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