Tim Berners-Lee shares his disappointment on World Wide Web’s 29th birthday

Re:Tim Berners-Lee shares his disappointment on World Wide W... by ChrisSD on Sunday March 18, 2018 @07:53AM (#16611529)

The DRM is not a web standard. Thinking about it, it might actually be better if it was. An open DRM scheme could be reviewed by independent security researchers and open source cross platform implementations could be created.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee shares his disappointment on World Wide W... by paulmd on Sunday March 18, 2018 @07:55AM (#16611541)

And what benefit would an ironclad DRM scheme in the browser bring to the internet?

"I, for one, welcome web canvases with ads that I can never block or dismiss." That's what you're saying, right? Because that's what Google wants, at the end of the day.

Those apps will be no less intrusive, and significantly more powerful than what exists today. In fact, you are welcoming a reduction of our freedoms.

edit: God, RMS was right all along, there are no freedoms but end-user freedoms.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee shares his disappointment on World Wide W... by ChrisSD on Sunday March 18, 2018 @08:08AM (#16611567)

Blocking DRM on the web is easy. The big issue is the opposite, playing a video you have a right to, without arbitrary restrictions.

So much DRM will force you to use some particular software in some particular way with seemingly arbitrary restrictions. Frankly consumers would be much better off without DRM in the world.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee shares his disappointment on World Wide W... by paulmd on Sunday March 18, 2018 @08:31AM (#16611642)

> Blocking DRM on the web is easy.

It won't be after we expand the powers of plugins to get in underneath the layers you know. You can't block elements or code that you disagree with when there are no elements because everything is a web-canvas or plugin that is rendering underneath you.

Remember when Flash existed? Nobody could block dangerous elements of Flash, it was all or nothing. Why would you ever want to go back to that?

> Frankly consumers would be much better off without DRM in the world.

Great, we agree! So why do you think the powers of DRM should be expanded?

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee shares his disappointment on World Wide W... by ChrisSD on Sunday March 18, 2018 @08:45AM (#16611696)

I think it should be restricted and indeed EME is more restricted than Flash.

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