Hi "We will need to be able to enable or disable availability of some content based on the type of platform" - BBC as quoted in http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/17/bbc-drm-w3c
Yep, I guess that means disabling availability of some works for viewing with free software. Cheers Dave On 13 March 2013 12:42, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > On 12 March 2013 19:03, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have gotten news that DRM is going to make it into HTML5. Anybody >> can confirm it? > > https://www.google.com/search?q=drm+html5 first page brings me to > > http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/17/bbc-drm-w3c > > and > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/23/microsoft_google_netflix_html5_drm_infection/ > > and the 3rd link in the Wired article is to > > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media-fpwd.html > >> If that's true, maybe we should create some commotion around the topic >> - some joint open letter of organisations and people on this list, for >> starters? >> >> I can't actually believe that W3C is considering it, but that's the >> news I got. > > The real news here is that Sir Tim Berners-Lee supported it in the Q&A > of his SXSW keynote. > > http://boingboing.net/2013/03/12/why-tim-berners-lee-is-wrong-a.html > > Cheers > Dave -- Cheers Dave
