Nice summary of the risks of DRM in HTML

From the FSF:

"This means that each time a part of the Web starts requiring DRM software to decrypt it, it becomes inaccessible to free software. And if influential companies like Netflix, Google and Microsoft succeed at jamming DRM into the HTML standard, there will be even more pressure than there already is for people distributing media to encumber it with DRM. We'll see an explosion of DRM on the Web -- a growing dark zone inaccessible to free software users. This threatens to happen at a time when the state of free software-friendly media on the Web was starting to improve, with the increasing quality of free video codecs and the decline of Flash accompanied by the rise of the HTML5 video tag."

I don't always agree with the FSF but they've hit the nail on the head here. That dark zone they talk about is the exact opposite of the Open Web, and is the basis of my objection to the W3C working on this proposal. 

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