Re: Dear EFF: Please don't pick the wrong fight

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:56 PM, John Sullivan <johns@fsf.org> wrote:
> It is related to EME specifically. The "content protection in scope"
> statement is *not* exclusive to DRM. As Jeff has said, "content
> protection" is not synonymous with DRM. Other techniques such as
> watermarking, which do not require patented, non-interoperable,
> proprietary software on Web users' computers, fall under that category
> by their definition as well.

The use of watermarking also wouldn't involve any changes to the specs
describing browser behavior, so in the context of the charter of the
HTML WG interpreting "content protection" that is "in scope" to mean
watermarking makes no sense technically. That is, putting watermarking
"in scope" for the HTML WG would not imply any changes to any HTML
specs. As for defining a watermarking technique to be applied to video
data, the HTML WG seems like a totally wrong venue in terms of
available expertise.

So yeah, TimBL ruled DRM to be in scope. Yet, the HTML WG isn't
actually defining DRM but carefully treating the definition of DRM
(apart from its high-level networking architecture) as being *out of
scope*.

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Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.fi/

Received on Thursday, 24 October 2013 08:55:09 UTC