Re: Cory Doctorow: W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards, says it's OK for your browser to say "I can't let you do that, Dave" [via Restricted Media Community Group]

> > Way to break the web, guys.
> >
> Problem here is, solution is not create a DarkNet in Javascript as I'm
> currently doing, we'll need to create new standards and protocols and
> let HTTP and HTML to follow the same path that Gopher and BBSs and
> wait another 20 years to see if they get the same success... :-(

Imagine if the DRM for saved web pages becomes a recommendation.  Can
you see Firefox implementing it?  No.  But I can see Chrome and IE doing
so, which will take us right back to the bad old days: "this site
optimized for Internet Explorer".

I really thought we'd moved past that by 2013.  Turns out not. 

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Received on Thursday, 3 October 2013 22:20:21 UTC