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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@dret I don’t follow. Didn’t the Web do perfectly fine without DRM support so far?
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@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 E.g. should business models that rely on me not being able to read the same content as you because of my location be standardized?
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@stilkov i am really not a fan of #DRM, but i dislike @EFF's dramatization and lack of alternatives. is it really just: "die, #DRM, die"?
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Replying to @dret
@dret Fair enough. And agreed on the beer argument, of course.

Oct 3, 2013 · 9:38 PM UTC