Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML
by edraferi on Thursday July 13, 2017 @09:28AM
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Adding legal agreements into a technical standard is tricky. Security researchers absolutely need protection, but it should be addressed at via legislation. There needs to be a clear way to distinguish security research from malicious hacking that applies across technologies.
Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML
by syshum on Thursday July 13, 2017 @04:33PM
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Fat chance that happening, if anything we will see increased restriction on who is allowed and not allowed to "research" security limited to only government approved contractors that file for permission to do with the FBI
> First, the question of whether or not EME even needs to be in HTML at all. Many -- even those who dislike DRM -- have argued that it was kind of necessary. The underlying argument here is that certain content producers would effectively abandon the web without EME being in HTML5.
> The second issue is much more problematic. A bunch of W3C members had made a clear proposal that if EME is included, there should be a covenant that W3C members will not sue security researchers under Section 1201 of the DMCA should they crack any DRM. There is no reason not to support this. Security researchers should be encouraged to be searching for vulnerabilities in DRM and encryption in order to better protect us all.