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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by dublinben on Friday October 04, 2013 @10:00AM (#6495381)
Content providers want to be on the web, because that's where the audience is. If they're made to feel unwelcome on the web, they certainly will take their content away. This makes the web less useful and harms users.
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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by icebraining on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:12AM (#6495791)
The web has had copies of that content well before the "content providers" even had a website, and it'll have copies of the content well after they decide to leave.

All they can take away is the sources that actually bring them money.

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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by AJ007 on Friday October 04, 2013 @04:37PM (#6497805)
The "web" has existed in a mature form for over 2 decades.

The web's success has been extraordinary in the same terms of any monumental human achievement -- the discovery of anti-biotics, the moon landing, the Magna Carta.

Why would we cripple that set of features just to make a tiny group of people happy (relative to the world's population, the copyright "special interest" cartel is indeed microscopic.)

And I thought web sites screwing up keyboard shortcuts was annoying..

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