- From: John C. Vernaleo <john@netpurgatory.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 16:29:59 -0400 (EDT)
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- cc: 'Andreas Kuckartz' <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>, 'Sam Ruby' <rubys@intertwingly.net>, timbl@w3.org, public-html-admin@w3.org, public-html-media@w3.org, jeff@w3.org
On Thu, 30 May 2013, John Foliot wrote: > <non-technical post, with apologies> > > Your stated reasoning appears to be that if you are "successful" you will > have somehow stopped Digital Rights Management from being used on the web, > or being supported by commercial browsers developed by privately held > commercial companies today. The Web "MUST REMAIN FREE!!!" you rally. As an > analogy, I see this as akin to stating that you support freedom of religion > as long as that religion is based upon a form of Christianity - anyone who > deviates from that myopic perspective is "wrong", misguided, or simply > "greedy". > I don't think anyone has suggested that stopping the EME proposal (or whatever exactly it technically is at this point) will stop DRM on the web. That is an pretty serious mischaracterization of the positions of the people who do not agree with it. Speaking largely for myself, I don't like the idea of the w3c endorsing such a think and I disapprove of DRM on a variety of grounds, but I don't believe stopping this proposal will magically make DRM go away. So I don't appreciate you suggesting such ignorance or magical thinking on "our side" (and I also hate this seems to turn into and our side vs. their side argument). I know that I have not suggested such things about you or anyone else who is in favor of EME. John ------------------------------------------------------- John C. Vernaleo, Ph.D. www.netpurgatory.com john@netpurgatory.com -------------------------------------------------------
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