- From: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:45:53 -0700
- To: Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org>
- Cc: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org>, Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch>, Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>, "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>, "coordinators@igcaucus.org" <coordinators@igcaucus.org>
Sent from my iPhone 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 (...)" > > 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. > > 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" > > > -- > Nikos Roussos > http://roussos.cc > > > >
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