On 23 March 2013 18:23, Matt Giuca <matt.gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've two minds about this, because on the one hand, DRM really has no place > in an open web specification. But on the other hand, if we don't give them > (the media companies) a standardised way to do DRM, they will ignore the > web platform and come up with their own proprietary DRM systems, such as > stand-alone Windows and Mac binaries instead. Could that be even worse? >
If it is standardised (from what I understand this standard only covers a small part of what is required for DRM) then this could be used by media companies to argue that DRM is ok, because it is "endorsed" by the W3C. _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
