Rage against the monopolized machine: you should use products how you want Phones we can’t unlock. Shows we can’t skip. And now coffee machines that won’t work with a competitor’s coffee? Don’t buy in theguardian.com, Thursday 6 March 2014 20.29 … Continue reading
9 October 2013 by Tim Berners-Lee, On Encrypted Video and the Open Web. Here are just selected parts: […] “So we put the user first, but different users have different preferences. Putting the user first doesn’t help us to satisfy … Continue reading
In a 4 October article, Dear EFF: please don’t pick the wrong fight, Chris Adams replies to some of the points made by Danny O’Brien for the EFF and Cory Doctorow for Boing Boing. I thought I’d share it here, … Continue reading
October 2, 2013 | By Danny O’Brien “On Monday, the W3C announced that its Director, Tim Berners-Lee, had determined that the “playback of protected content” was in scope for the W3C HTML Working Group’s new charter, overriding EFF’s formal objection … Continue reading
Cory Doctorow at 9:34 pm Wed, Oct 2, 2013 “Here’s the bad news: the World Wide Web Consortium is going ahead with its plan to add DRM to HTML5, setting the stage for browsers that are designed to disobey their … Continue reading
“San Francisco – Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a formal objection to the inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5, arguing that a draft proposal from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) could stymie Web innovation and … Continue reading
“Today a coalition of twenty-seven organizations released a joint letter to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Web’s standards-setting body, condemning Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). EME is a proposal to incorporate support for Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) — the … Continue reading
“We call on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its member organizations to reject the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal (EME), which would incorporate support for Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML. EME would be an irreversible step backward for … Continue reading
