Re: I strongly urge all supporters to reconsider the EME proposal. It is not in your best interests!

+1, you've exposed very clearly your arguments and I totally agree with
them.
El 15/05/2013 16:37, "Zak Fenton" <zak.fenton@gmail.com> escribió:

> DRM simply does not belong on the web, it is contrary to freedom of speech
> and it is of zero benefit to the consumers who fuel the web economy. It
> will only make browsers and servers more complicated and more error prone,
> restrict the ability of people to use the web, and waste CPU cycles
> encrypting what is probably already widely available to pirates.. As any
> technologically competent person is aware, unless you can stream the media
> direct to the viewer's brain, there will ALWAYS be ways to circumvent these
> methods: A paying subscriber to a channel or buyer of a movie can simply
> record their screen and audio output (without any quality loss if they're
> smart), freely sharing the result with others.
> You cannot beat piracy with technology. Suffice to say pirates have access
> to better technology, because they get it free! The only thing that will
> slow the continual increase in piracy is better content, content which is
> actually worth paying for, and better content developers, content
> developers who people actually want to pay.
> This proposal will not help anybody, it will only make web standards more
> complicated, harder to correctly implement, and less reliable as a result.
> I'm really beginning to lose my faith in standards bodies like this to
> develop standards which are actually of benefit to humanity, rather than
> standards which have been set by investors desperately trying to squeeze
> profit from a 20th century business model. This simply does not make any
> sense.
> Older generations developed the technology, but it was my generation that
> made the internet and the web a popular success. Without the freedoms we
> had, future generations will simply move towards underground protocols and
> networks that protect their freedom, creating a new safe haven for real
> criminals. If this proposal is accepted and widely implemented, it will
> perhaps mark the beginning of the end for the relevance of web standards,
> but certainly not for freedom online.
>
> Again, I strongly urge all involved parties to reconsider their support
> for this proposal.
> Yours sincerely,
> Zak Fenton.
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