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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by sgift on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:07PM (#15279591)
> Look no further than the good work the WHATWG did

And who was WHATWG? Oh right, exactly the same companies that now voted for DRM as W3C standard. And why could they do WHATWG? Because they are the vendors of the majority browsers.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by dannyobrien on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:21PM (#15279718)
WHATWG did not include EME in the WHATWG HTML living standard, and supported EFF's proposal to protect security researchers: https://blog.whatwg.org/drm-and-web-security

Ian Hickson also came out strongly against DRM when this whole debate started: https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2

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