- From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:46:48 -0700
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Cc: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 19:07 -0700, John Hudson wrote: > Thomas Lord wrote: > > >> A DRM-enabling mechanism is something that > >> restricts use of a font by a user agent. > > > You have a usable font file but the standard > > says "you MUST NOT use it" -- yes, that is DRM. > > No, that is not DRM. > > DRM is a *business model* made possible by technical measures. There is > no business model that exploits the rejection as invalid of an EOTL that > fails to conform to the spec for that format. In what way is this > managing rights? Because a browser which (sanely) ignores such a requirement is, by virtue of the existence of such an important standard, either commercially harmed by being "deliberately non-conforming" is is outright construed in a court of law as a circumvention device. -t > > JH
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