Re: The subject line is irrelevant these days

> By the way 'the open web' means generally the content that is linked into
> and accessible on the public internet, in contrast to the use of the same
> technologies used in internal (closed) networks or in other controlled
> environments (e.g. web offerings from an ISP to only its customers, and
> so on).

I would say that DRM restricted content clearly falls into the category
of "other controlled environments."  How is "from an ISP to only its
customers" different to, say, "to people running a specified operating
system, browser and proprietary binary blob"?

> *including* trying to make it hard or impossible to include protected
> content in the open web (your broken broken record notwithstanding); that
> is also inimical to the open web.

DRM restricted content is not, and can never, be part of the open web. 
It is, to use your own phrase, a "controlled environment".

> 27.2 "Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material
> interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production
> of which he is the author."
> 
> Some of those making artistic production are unable to see how to protect
> their material interests from people who think that, because it is easily
> copied, all digital information is and ought to be free -- unless they
> protect that content.

And that's perfectly fair; those people are free to pursue whatever DRM
technologies they like.  I'm not arguing against their right to do so. 
I have in fact written a commercial DRM system for Windows software.

All I'm saying - and 27.2 above is irrelevant to this - that the W3C is
not the place for DRM.
 
> and on the other side?  That 'my preference' for open-source software
> should trump all other concerns and desires, for a start.

Free, not open-source.  There is a difference.  But that's still
irrelevant to the discussion.

-- 
Duncan Bayne
ph: +61 420817082 | web: http://duncan-bayne.github.com/ | skype:
duncan_bayne

I usually check my mail every 24 - 48 hours.  If there's something
urgent going on, please send me an SMS or call me.

Received on Tuesday, 22 October 2013 21:38:41 UTC