Re: Cory Doctorow: W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards, says it's OK for your browser to say "I can't let you do that, Dave" [via Restricted Media Community Group]

> >> Yes, indeed, and that's great.  But it's not all content creators that
> >> can or are willing to go that way.
> > 
> > Obviously.  But it's not the W3Cs job to break the WWW to accommodate
> > those who aren't willing.
> 
> well, nor is it the W3C's position to break them -- insist that they go
> bankrupt -- in order to satisfy some idea of purity, either.

No-one is suggesting that the W3C force anyone to go bankrupt.  All
we're saying is that it's not the W3Cs job to help prop up their
business models at the expense of their mission.

There are already DRM 'solutions' based upon Silverlight, Flash and many
other proprietary plugins and app-store apps.  Those won't go away if
the W3C refuses to play ball.

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Received on Wednesday, 9 October 2013 00:05:20 UTC