Re: On considering digital copies as physical things...

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Mhyst <mhysterio@gmail.com> wrote:

> If we are going to conffer some properties from physical things to
> digital copies... we should think about user rights as well. I mean...
> when you own a book you can read and lend it to a friend. The "free"
> market is been trying to give magic things (like digital copies) some
> characteristics of physical things while denying others. They've
> created laws with the sole purpose of making money on digital copies
> but blatantly forgetting about other consequences of physical things.
> So... well, OK let's do EME. But first let's equiparate the two
> concepts with all their characteristics and derivations (not just the
> ones convenient for the market).
>
> If you get such a law working worldwide in a fair and open way, We'll
> let EME exists on HTML standard.
>

Julio,

With respect, that seems a bit backwards. W3C as an (unelected) technical
standards development organization is in no position to second-guess
democratically established laws, whether you feel they are fair or not. Nor
are we really in a position to opine on contraversial legal matters at all.

Rather, I would agree that if _you_ get the changes made that you would
clearly like to see in copyright and other laws, then EME would become
irrelevant. There are campaigns and political parties working on just that.
But until then, in W3C, we should work with the world as it is today,
surely ?

...Mark



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