Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML

Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by kuschku on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:01PM (#14766033)

And that’s false. There’s laws about this, and there’s rights about this. And the right owners can do what they want, if the law allows me to sell content for which I bought a license, I should be able to do so.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by FussyZeus on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:44PM (#14766263)

I'm not sure what you're attempting to state here. If you buy content, you have the right to access it? That's correct but it's not contrary to anything I've said.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by kuschku on Friday July 14, 2017 @10:12AM (#14769910)

I have the right to access it, copy it, sell it, or rent it out.

If DRM prevents me from doing so, it violates my rights.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by FussyZeus on Friday July 14, 2017 @10:32AM (#14770067)

No, you do not have those rights. You have the rights outlined in the terms of service of the given distributor you bought it from.

Some like Amazon MP3 are much more liberal in terms of what you can do with your purchased media, but you do not own the rights to copy it, sell it, or rent it. If you don't believe me, try and do it.

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