Re: What change could we make? (was Re: Letter on DRM in HTML)

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On Jun 21, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Nikos Roussos
<comzeradd@mozilla-community.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 02:42 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>> Nikos's statement "... EME [...] contradicts with Open Web principles"
>> is rousing but doesn't say which principles those are nor
>> how they are necessarily contradicted.
>>
>> One principle of the open web is "anyone can publish",
>> Can we design an EME system where that is true, and anyone can
>> publish content using it?
>
> Also "anyone can consume", regardless of "their hardware, software,
> network infrastructure (...)"
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> So for start that's one principle of Open Web (and W3's own mission)
> that EME is contradicting, since it seems that it will require users to
> trust binary blobs from content providers in order to be functional.

As an aside, and I feel like a broken record here, the intention is
that the binary blobs come from your chosen browser or OS implementor.

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> Another principle that DRM contradicts is that it disregards consumer
> rights. Quoting Norbert Bollow from a previous email: "rights that
> people have as a matter of law as soon as they have legal access to a
> digital good"
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> Nikos Roussos
> http://roussos.cc
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Received on Friday, 21 June 2013 14:46:22 UTC