Re: Please, reject the EME proposal

On 05/13/2013 12:37 PM, B. Ross Ashley wrote:
> On 13-05-13 10:49 AM, Paul Cotton wrote:
>>
>> Please take this discussion to a more appropriate forum such as
>> http://www.w3.org/community/restrictedmedia/
>>
>> /paulc
>>
>> HTML WG co-chair
>>
>> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
>>
>> 17 Eleanor Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A3
>>
>> Tel: (425) 705-9596 Fax: (425) 936-7329
>>
>> *From:*Pascual Conesa [mailto:pasconguero@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Friday, May 10, 2013 5:41 PM
>> *To:* public-html-media@w3.org
>> *Subject:* Please, reject the EME proposal
>>
>> The W3C's official vision statement also "recognizes that trust is a
>> social phenomenon, but technology design can foster trust and
>> confidence" and asserts that the W3C's mission includes "building
>> trust on a global scale." A specification designed to help companies
>> run secret code on users' computers to restrict what they do on the
>> Web would severely undermine that trust. The only trust being built
>> here is between media companies calling for DRM and their powerful
>> allies promoting EME in the W3C.
>>
> Strikes me, sir, that this is the appropriate forum, discussing new
> forms of media restrictions and whether or not they should be built into
> the HTML5 specification.. Please demonstrate explicitly how it is not.

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