Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by noir_lord on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:08PM
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> (you effectively cannot ship a playback device at any real scale without following the rules the content owners set)
Except a desktop PC/laptop - hence https://youtu.be/HUEvRyemKSg
Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by Crespyl on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:55PM
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This is a really important talk, here's the Doctorow article based on it, if anyone wants to read instead of watch: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
It's already happening too, note the way Netflix refuses to send higher quality streams to the PC, except through IE/Edge or the native app (which exhibits strange, tell-tale behaviors on multi-monitor setups).
DRM may be pointless if you think its main goal is a way to prevent people from watching content they did not directly pay for.
But that is missing the point. It does not matter that you, an individual, can break it. It's a divide and conquer strategy: we as a community have to follow the rules and that's what matters.
DRM is about and has been extremely successful at giving content owners leverage over playback devices (you effectively cannot ship a playback device at any real scale without following the rules the content owners set) and transitively to players down the content pipe. That is why it is evil. It's the most clear manifestation of an unjust instrument of power over the user, to put it in Stallman words.