Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in Web standards

Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We... by wyager on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:08PM (#12663568)

We should make DRM as expensive, difficult, and unwieldy to use as possible. We need not and should not standardize the use of things that are detrimental.

"Oh, hackers will always be able to break into systems. So instead of making them do it ad-hoc, let's just create a standardized backdoor on every system. It will be less work for everyone."

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We... by ubersoldat2k7 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @05:16AM (#12666251)

Then only big medias companies will be the only ones able to reach as many users as possible. You have no idea of how expensive it's right now to target just browsers. Small producers will be constrained to only publishing trough their channels/platforms.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We... by inimino on Friday October 07, 2016 @10:21PM (#12665329)

You're talking about the very people who build the systems here, not hackers. Standards bodies facilitate the work of implementers, they are not regulatory agencies.

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