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Re:Tim Berners-Lee shares his disappointment on World Wide W... by eveningcoffee on Sunday March 18, 2018 @08:11AM (#16611573)
You only see video but this is not important.

The higher risk is that we will have DRM of everything. Imagine the implications if the whole web page is behind DRM.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee shares his disappointment on World Wide W... by paulmd on Sunday March 18, 2018 @08:36AM (#16611663)
To make this explicit for the less imaginative users: markup language as we know it ceases to exist. You interact with web content through something like Flash, and we get unblockable ads on everything, and any other conditions that content providers choose.
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