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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by noir_lord on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:08PM (#15279612)
> (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

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by Crespyl on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:55PM (#15281000)
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).

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