- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:15:46 -0500
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>, www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
On 2/20/2014 5:50 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > To elaborate on this: The essence of DRM is restriction. Encryption is > incidental. Encryption is just a mechanism that makes data useless by > default (i.e. unless the key is provided on the condition of > restrictions being in place). The name of the Restricted Media > Community Group gets this right. The title of the spec is a trap > despite being technically correct, since the title focuses on the > incidental rather than the essential. Focusing on encryption is > falling into the trap. +1. Noah
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