Re: Encrypted Media proposal (was RE: ISSUE-179: av_param - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals)

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> >> It is unethical for us to make and use technologies that are
> intentionally
> >> inaccessible, whether that be preventing deaf users from knowing what is
> >> being said in a movie production of Hamlet, or preventing English
> >> professors from critiquing parts of that same movie.
> >
> > Baloney.
>
> Which part is baloney?  The part where deaf people get to enjoy
> Hamlet, or the part where English professors get to critique it?


the part where DRM/content protection is equated with intentionally denying
access to impaired users