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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by tptacek on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:47PM (#15280368)
By what, banning plugins? Now you're asking the anti-DRM people to do exactly what they're angry at the pro-DRM people for doing: preventing people from running a particular kind of program on their computer. It's an incoherent position.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by Furmark on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @04:49AM (#15291791)
Not banning, simply not providing api for them.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by tptacek on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:51AM (#15295113)
That doesn't work. Look what happens with AV providers: they hack their own plugin interface into the browser, and everybody loses more security.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by madez on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:39PM (#15280926)
You can have arbitrary exceptions to ensure coherency. There is no reasonable need to have a position without exceptions. Reality isn't that simple.
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