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

+ 2013-06-27 Thu 16:37, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>:

> I don't want to get into a legal argument. AFAIK DRM on the web has
> not been the subject of legal challenges to date. I think a group such
> as W3C needs to rely on that measure - rather than in principle legal
> arguments that many of us are not qualified to engage in.

AFAIK DRM on the Web has not brought legal challenges yet, that's
true. But mainly all DRM technologies have, in the past, brought
legal challenges, including sometimes different outcomes. 

So I doubt that there will not be any problem, especially since
IMO the laws that protect DRM against damaging circumvention are a
BIG mess (completely unclear and unreliable).

I think these problems are inevitable, because they come with DRM
as such: technological restrictions that enable right-holders to
claim more power over consumers' device and data, that copyright
law itself entitles them to.


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