Re: Is EME usable regardless of the software/hardware I use ?

On 2013/06/11 23:50, Mark Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2013/06/11 19:46, Mark Watson wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Andreas Kuckartz
>> <A.Kuckartz@ping.de> wrote:
>> 
>> B. Ross Ashley:
>> 
>> On 13-06-10 09:20 AM, Emmanuel Revah wrote:
>> EME/DRM is more comparable to an alarm designed to protect home
>  owners
> 
>>> against their own guests.
>> Actually, it is even more comparable to an alarm system to defend
>  teh
> 
>> guest against the houseowner! I am not on their machine, they are
>  on mine.
> 
>  +1 (I intended to write the same.)
> 
>  The houseowner will not be allowed to find out what the alarm is
>  really
>  doing. It might be monitoring his house silently. Maybe on behalf
>  of
>  media rights owners, maybe on behalf of the NSA, maybe on behalf of
>  both.
> 
>  Extended analogies aside, what would be a good way to address this
>  concern ? That is, how can we give the user the _option_ to
>  _voluntarily_ accept that certain restrictions be applied to certain
>  data without opening the door to the security and privacy concerns
>  expressed above ?
> 
>  I prefer to ask:
> 
>  If there is no other way to restrict content other than by involving
> privacy concerns, should we still do it ?
> 
> So, your saying, if there is no other way to restrict content other
> than by involving privacy concerns, should we even give the users the
> choice ?


This discussion (for me) is within the scope of the W3 and not life in 
general.

If there is no other way to restrict content other than by involving 
privacy concerns, should the W3C endorse it ?



-- 
Emmanuel Revah
http://manurevah.com

Received on Tuesday, 11 June 2013 22:36:28 UTC