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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by aerovistae on Friday July 07, 2017 @04:50PM (#14721969)
Can you elaborate on that? Why do you believe this?
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by AndyMcConachie on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:23AM (#14724210)
The choice we're faced with is either we get some standardized DRM in browsers or we get unstandardized DRM in browsers. That's the choice.

I've had email discussions with people at the EFF about this and we basically just had to agree to disagree. Their interpretation of the choice we're making is that we either get DRM in browsers or we get some magical fairy-tale land where DRM suddenly ceases to exist. I don't buy it.

Plus, as a Netflix subscriber I don't really mind DRM that much. Feel free to ask away, I'm always willing to talk about this.

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