Re: DRM / copy protection Re: Web and TV Accessibility

Yes, this is the general consensus. We need to be able to use DRM and
provide some common parameters, but there is no will to specify any
specific DRM.

This will be the topic of our first MPTF morning session at the F2F
meeting next Thursday.

-Clarke

On 9/16/11 10:53 AM, "GAUSMAN, PAUL" <pg2483@att.com> wrote:

>I think that Web and TV requirements should be agnostic to DRM types and
>accommodating of them, as an option.
>
>Thanks!
>-Paul
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>Q me
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: public-web-and-tv-request@w3.org
>[mailto:public-web-and-tv-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mo McRoberts
>Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 4:43 AM
>To: Charles McCathieNevile
>Cc: silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com; Robert Pearson; public-web-and-tv@w3.org
>Subject: Re: DRM / copy protection Re: Web and TV Accessibility
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>
>On 16 Sep 2011, at 08:08, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>
>>> Understanding that copyright metadata would be attached to the file,
>>>but that is likely not a concern for someone stealing it.
>> 
>> True - although in many cases it *is* sufficient. A surprising amount
>>can
>> be achieved with information and goodwill, although it is important to
>> understand the limits...
>
>I'd be inclined to agree, on the whole.
>
>Being pragmatic about this, if the aim were to be "a copy-protection
>system that was both freely-implementable yet broadly effective" (which I
>believe it should be - because otherwise, by definition, it's something
>which is in the hands of the few, and so runs counter to the principles
>of the Web and most software which interacts with it), then technical
>measures are not beyond the bounds of possibility - I'd be wary of
>discounting the effectiveness of the mainstream browsers paying attention
>to a "do not copy" flag.
>
>The nub is that any DRM system, unless it operates within the context of
>a closed system, involves handing both the keys and the content protected
>by those keys to a user who does, as far as the system is concerned, have
>legitimate access to both. If that user subsequently decides to make use
>of the material they've been handed to make illicit copies, and is
>technically able to do so, then they will.
>
>Much of the work around copy-protection has been predicated upon "we're
>going to use crypto to protect our content, so put as much effort as
>possible into keeping the keys from people we don't want to have them";
>given that (for the difficult cases people put in lots of effort into
>trying to solve) you don't know who you don't want to have the keys until
>after they've already obtained them, this is a logical failure.
>
>However, if you go back to the basics of what it's actually *for*, but
>accept the reality that in handing somebody both a lock and a key, there
>will be people capable of inserting the key into the lock and turning it,
>then you're left with a problem-space of "how can a copy-protection
>scheme be implemented which puts illicit copying beyond the effort
>threshold of the majority, but still allows the maximum number of
>legitimate users to enjoy the material?". A solution to that of "a
>'please don't copy this' flag which Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera,
>Firefox, and Safari all honour" satisfies that aim, possibly in
>combination with things like time/session-dependent identifiers and so
>forth. Sure, the really determined individuals will evade it, but that's
>no different to any other scheme.
>
>Given that, the real question is less about whether the W3C or this group
>in particular would support it, but whether Microsoft, Google, Apple,
>Mozilla and Opera would agree to implement it (and subsequently, whether
>rights-holders could be convinced that it was no worse from their
>perspective than any other mechanism, and permit distributors to make use
>of it).
>
>M.
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