i get the @EFF's point eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lo…, but it would be interesting to hear what their alternative reality actually looks like.

Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C

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

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Replying to @dret
@dret I don’t follow. Didn’t the Web do perfectly fine without DRM support so far?

Oct 3, 2013 · 9:19 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov yes, but effectively, #Flash and other bolted-on stuff has filled in the gaps. what's evil without changing the mechanics of that?
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@dret I don’t want DRM-related stuff to have a good user experience
Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov and it's not that i am a #DRM fan; it's just that accepting it as a reality and business need is not necessarily a bad thing.
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@dret I think DRM is just never an acceptable solution. It’s just prolonging business models that will die, anyway
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