- From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 22 May 2013 06:18:44 +0200
- To: "John Foliot" <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: "'Norbert Bollow'" <nb@bollow.ch>, "'Mark Watson'" <watsonm@netflix.com>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
John Foliot: > Content Protection and Digital Rights Management are realities today, > philosophical stances aside, and my goal as an Accessibility SME and member > of the a11yTF is to ensure that persons with disabilities have the same > level of support as "able-bodied" users do with regard to being able to > interact with these technologies - I leave the judgment of the "right or > wrong" around DRM to the individual consumer and content producer: those > that are opposed to it are free to not deploy it on their content, and to > use legitimate market forces to change the minds of those that do. Believing > however that stopping the evolution of Content Protection inside of the W3C > will be the death of these technologies is foolhardy at a minimum, and naïve > at the least: those entities who have a business requirement for this type > of technology will simply move their work elsewhere and continue to work on > it - perhaps in forums less open to listening to all perspectives - > something that accessibility practitioners are only too familiar with if > history is to be believed. > > For that reason alone, I support the continued work around these > technologies within the W3C, using the truism better the devil you know, > than the one you don't (not that I am for one minute suggesting the W3C is a > devil). For those who are not aware here: John has been one of the main EME proponents within the HTML WG. Cheers, Andreas
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