The World Wide Web Consortium has announced that its members have until April 19 to weigh in on whether the organization should publish Encrypted Media Extensions, its DRM standard for web video, despite the fact that this would give corporations the new right to sue people who engaged in legal activity, from security researchers who revealed defects in browsers to accessibility workers who adapted video for disabled people to scrappy new companies who come up with legal ways to get more use out of your property. (more…)
W3c Moves To Finalize Drm Standardization, Reclassifies Suing Security Researchers As A Feature, Not A Bug
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Tue, 03/21/2017 - 6:26am
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