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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by userbinator on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:29AM (#36877346)
Indeed. Negotiations have already turned out to be completely ineffective. The next step is war.

Cory Doctorow came up with the phrase "The War on General-Purpose Computing", which describes the situation perfectly.

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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by teddyh on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:00PM (#36879946)
Even before that, there was “The Digital Imprimatur”: <https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/>
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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:00PM (#36879948)
He came up with it more than 9 years ago, during which time no such war has been generally apparent, and if anything, the conditions for general purpose computing have improved.
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