W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards

Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by snowwrestler on Thursday October 03, 2013 @08:59PM (#6493148)

It only punishes users if it is badly implemented. I doubt many users of Steam or Netflix feel punished.

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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by ctiothy on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:34AM (#6493727)

I can't watch my Netflix account on Linux without using some Wine distribution because of the Silverlight DRM. I'd say I feel pretty punished on that end.

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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by diminoten on Friday October 04, 2013 @02:04AM (#6493957)

Yeah well your use case doesn't fit the "many" qualifier that was mentioned in the comment you replied to.

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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by ctiothy on Friday October 04, 2013 @10:06AM (#6495417)

I disagree. Even though Linux desktop usage isn't a huge percentage (~1%?), I would consider 1% of millions "many".

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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by diminoten on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:28PM (#6496316)

I would consider many to be a worthless weasel word, that tells us nothing other than more than one but less than even a significant minority.

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