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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by librarian42 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @07:55AM (#14725087)
Flash and Silverlight were low friction. And both are deprecated or unavailable on a lot of players now.

Making DRM harder for the end user is the only effective push-back. It worked for music. It's working for e-Books. It would have worked for movies... if it wasn't for this.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by DanBC on Saturday July 08, 2017 @07:56AM (#14725095)
> It's working for e-Books.

How is it working for ebooks, when the leading vendor has introduced more severe DRM?

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by Mindwipe on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:00PM (#14730632)
It didn't work for music either. The industry is now majority distribution via DRM subscription streaming.
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