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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by jiggy2011 on Thursday October 03, 2013 @04:51PM (#6491948)
It seems odd for HN to be in favour of making technology & content marginally less accessible simply to spite people.

Perhaps there exists a class of people who wanted to implement DRM on all of their content but were just waiting for the W3s blessing but such a class will be extremely small.

Most of the DRM you see comes from mandates from big content firms, most other people could give less of a shit.

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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by pgeorgi on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:22AM (#6494899)
DRM'd content isn't accessible and that's the entire problem. Adding a standardized hook for DRM modules to use creates the illusion that things got accessible that previously weren't.

Try exercising your fair-use rights on those DRM'd bits for example.

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