Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by icebraining on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:00AM
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You asked for benefits, I listed them. I don't care that you don't care :)
Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by nindalf on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:07AM
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That's fair. I'm the first to admit that my personal opinion is irrelevant. I made the mistake of saying "I don't care", hoping you'd understand I meant "the vast majority doesn't care".
Could you list some benefits that would be appreciated by more than 0.1% of society?
This misses my point. No one cares about DRM - not the streaming service, or the browser vendors or most importantly, the users. Consumers have voted with their wallets on this - they'd rather watch Netflix than torrent.
Maybe I'm being callous, but I don't care much about "the ethical problem of pushing DRM". Nor do I care much about MIPS and SPARC. How many end users are running MIPS and SPARC anyway? And I especially don't care about it being difficult to use DRM. All of this sounds like ideological purity, which in my opinion, is a waste of time.