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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by agumonkey on Friday July 07, 2017 @05:50PM (#14722431)
What if it was legally bound that a securing tech (enforcing users not to abuse content) HAS to be opened in case of future demise of the author company ?

If Apple and iTunes suddenly crash, they have to make a tiny effort into releasing a conversion/stripping tool and/or open source the system so that ex-customers can at least attempt to help themselves.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by icebraining on Saturday July 08, 2017 @05:32AM (#14724772)
Netflix is a streaming company. Users have no rights to the content after their contract with the platform expires. Hell, they have no rights to the content if Netflix happens to remove it from the platform.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by endgame on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:31PM (#14723360)
If a business is failing THAT BADLY, they're not likely to have resources to implement the safeties. And if they don't, who's going to get in trouble?
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by izacus on Saturday July 08, 2017 @02:44AM (#14724436)
It's not about businesses failing - content disappears from Netflix and other services all the time. Shows people were watching previous month regularly disappear even though people pay for service. And DRM prevents them from exercising the legal right (in most juristictions, even US) to make private copies and watch them later. Remember VCRs and DVR devices? We changed laws to explicitly allow that.
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