Re: WebVR and DRM

Let's be clear on something: There is technical merit to discussing how
features such as DRM may be supported by WebVR in the future. There is also
technical merit to discussing the limitations that support of those
features may introduce. There is even merit to discussing alternatives to
DRM and reasons why you may want to pursue them. I don't see any value in
discussing the criminality of a feature or the people who use it.

This in not a list for lawyers. Let's stick to the technical and leave the
legal out of it.

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:55 PM Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:47 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> These are none of them accusing people of crimes, or attributing beliefs
>> to others.
>
>
> I firmly believe that anti-competitive behavior is a crime. I also believe
> that in due time legislation will wake up to the fact that DRM is
> effectively just a tool of anti-competitive behavior (though sadly this has
> not happened yet, although, some people in France thought so). I think
> anti-user oriented technology are harmful to society, users and developers.
> And I think it should be a crime to subvert society with anti-societal
> technology. This will take a bit longer than toppling DRM, but apparently
> some people in Germany have woken up to the harmful uses of technology to
> society and started to enforce laws to limit that impact (just ask
> Facebook). But this are the early days of society waking up, and the first
> feeble attempts at grappling with the problems.
>