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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px">I support EFFs position. <br /><br />On 30/05/2013, at 5:04 PM, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear Members,<br /><br />I would like to know if there is consensus in supporting EFF's objection through the crafting of the statement. <br /><br />Kind Regards,<br /><br />Sala<br /><br />Sent from my iPad<br /><br />On May 30, 2013, at 8:53 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <tapani.tarvainen@effi.org> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">+1<br /><br />On May 30 13:51, parminder (parminder@itforchange.net) wrote:<br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234;
padding-left: 1ex;">I propose that the IGC supports and endorses this objection... parminder<br /><br />On Thursday 30 May 2013 06:07 AM, Catherine Roy wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;">FYI. (Source : <a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5">https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5</a>)<br /><br />EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5<br />Draft Proposal from W3C Could Stymie Web Innovation<br /><br />San Francisco - Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)<br />filed a formal objection to the inclusion of digital rights<br />management (DRM) in HTML5, arguing that a draft proposal from the<br />World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) could stymie Web innovation and<br />block access to content for people across the globe.<br /><br />The W3C's HTML working group is creating a technical standard for<br />HTML5, an
upcoming revision to the computer language that creates<br />webpages and otherwise displays content online. The working group<br />has accepted a draft that includes discussion of Encrypted Media<br />Extensions (EME), which will hard-wire the requirements of DRM<br />vendors into the HTML standard.<br /><br />"This proposal stands apart from all other aspects of HTML<br />standardization: it defines a new 'black box' for the<br />entertainment industry, fenced off from control by the browser and<br />end-user," said EFF International Director Danny O'Brien. "While<br />this plan might soothe Hollywood content providers who are scared<br />of technological evolution, it could also create serious<br />impediments to interoperability and access for all."<br /><br />DRM standards look like normal technical standards but turn out to<br />have quite different qualities. They fail to implement their<br />stated intention – protecting media – while dragging in legal<br />mandates that
chill the speech of technologists, lock down<br />technology, and violate property rights by seizing control of<br />personal computers from their owners. Accepting EME could lead to<br />other rightsholders demanding the same privileges as Hollywood,<br />leading to a Web where images and pages cannot be saved or<br />searched, ads cannot be blocked, and innovative new browsers<br />cannot compete without explicit permission from big content<br />companies.<br /><br />EFF filed this objection as its first act as a full member of W3C.<br />EFF's goal is to broaden the discussion of the consequences of<br />accepting DRM-based proposals like EME for the future of the Web.<br /><br />"The W3C needs to develop a policy regarding DRM and similar<br />proposals, or risk having its own work and the future of the Web<br />become buried in the demands of businesses that would rather it<br />never existed in the first place," said EFF Senior Staff<br />Technologist Seth Schoen. "The EME
proposal needs to be seen for<br />what it is: a creation that will shut out open source developers<br />and competition, throw away interoperability, and lock in legacy<br />business models. This is the opposite of the fair use model that<br />gave birth to the Web."<br /><br />For EFF's full Formal Objection:<br /><a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/drm/w3c-formal-objection-html-wg">https://www.eff.org/pages/drm/w3c-formal-objection-html-wg</a><br /><br />For more on DRM in HTML5:<br /><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-joins-w3c-fight-drm">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-joins-w3c-fight-drm</a><br /><br />Contacts:<br /><br />Danny O'Brien<br />International Outreach Coordinator<br />Electronic Frontier Foundation<br />danny@eff.org<br /><br />Seth Schoen<br />Senior Staff Technologist<br />Electronic Frontier Foundation<br />seth@eff.org</blockquote><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br
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