- From: Renato Iannella <ri@semanticidentity.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:35:04 +1000
- To: Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org>
- Cc: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, 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>
On 25 Jun 2013, at 03:34, Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org> wrote: > Certainly the legal issues are not black-and-white in a worldwide scale. > That's why we shouldn't support DRM-based technical solutions that are > clearly on the black side of the spectrum and disregard any shades of > gray on consumers rights. That is a rather tough policy position to support, as I can think of other W3C standards that fall into the same category. The classic being that I use HTML5 to markup "slanderous" text on my website (the text being illegal in Australia). Do we blame HTML5? W3C? No...it is the *user* of the technology that has broken the law, not the technology itself. Cheers... Renato Iannella Semantic Identity http://semanticidentity.com Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206
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