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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by emodendroket on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:29PM (#15280597)
It goes against most people's notions of fairness to pay for a product and still have it encumbered with a lot of limitations. I think the case is stronger if we're talking about streams or rentals, but of course DRM is hardly limited to those.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by MBCook on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:17PM (#15280823)
But we’ve always had that. I mean every video tape I ever watched as a child had FBI warnings explaining that there were limits on what you could do with it.

The only difference is that the videotapes can now try and enforce it themselves.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by emodendroket on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:35PM (#15280910)
But you also had rights enshrined in law, like resale.
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