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