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<li><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">How about: "We believe that the inclusion of digital rights management in HTML5 will CON<font size="2">S</font>TRA<font size="2">IN</font> WEB innovation.
<font size="2">W</font>e strongly object to inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5,
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<font size="2"><font size="2">NOT DISTORT</font></font> CORE PR<font size="2">OTOCOLS OF THE OPEN INTERNET."</font></font></font></font></font>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF499494"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of Avri Doria [avri@acm.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 02, 2013 8:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> IGC<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] Re: Draft Statement #DRM HTML5/ was [Should the IGC support Formal Objection by EFF?] #DRM in HTML5<br>
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On 2 Jun 2013, at 08:34, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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> We believe that the inclusion of digital rights management in HTML5 will kill innovation and we strongly object to the inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5.
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Thanks for highlighting this sentence. While I have issues with some of the others that I need to think through, this one stands out as problematic for me.<br>
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I think that 'innovation' is one of those unidentifiables that everyone invokes in their statements no matter what position they are taking.<br>
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- those advocating DRM say that without the money that DRM enables no one would innovate at all (i disagree btw)<br>
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- those opposing DRM say that without the work of others to learn from and build upon we would kill innovation. I disagree, sure it makes innovation more challenging and is the wrong thing to do, but kill it? I don't think so.
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People will innovate because they are innovators, so we can facilitate or hinder it, but neither side can kill it.<br>
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I think if we going to include a reason, something I am not sure we should do, I think it has to rest of arguments related to Access to Knowledge.<br>
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