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<DIV>Many people here may wish to sign this petition.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"><A
href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5"><FONT
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5</FONT></FONT></A></DIV>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt" color=#3e3e3e>We call on the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) and its member organizations to reject the Encrypted Media
Extensions proposal (EME), which would incorporate support for Digital
Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML.</FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt" color=#3e3e3e>EME would be an
irreversible step backward for freedom on the Web. It would endorse and enable
business models that unethically restrict users, and it would make subjugation
to particular media companies a precondition for full Web citizenship. Just as
Flash and Silverlight are finally dying off, we should not replace them with the
media giants' latest control fantasy.</FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt" color=#3e3e3e>Furthermore, EME
contradicts the W3C's core values. It would hamper interoperability by
encouraging the proliferation of DRM plugins. It would fly in the face of the
W3C's principle of keeping the Web royalty-free — this is simply a back door for
media companies to require proprietary player software. It is willful ignorance
to pretend otherwise just because the proposal does not mention particular
technologies or DRM schemes by name.</FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt" color=#3e3e3e>W3C and member
organizations: don't weave DRM into the fabric of the Web.</FONT></FONT></B></P>
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