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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 12 April 2017 09:05 PM,
Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Dear Norbert
Thanks very much for posting this, for the JNC letter and for also
posting the links to APC and UNESCO's statements and WC3's follow up..
which I am still trying to fully 'interpret' :)</pre>
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Dear Anriette<br>
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In this write up for IP Watch, I try to respond to justifications
given in the W3C response. It is at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/04/13/web-crossroads-new-standard-enables-copyright-enforcement-violating-users-rights/">https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/04/13/web-crossroads-new-standard-enables-copyright-enforcement-violating-users-rights/</a>
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Basically, it is the regular problem - big corporations dominate a
space, they threaten the standards body that if the standards are
not as they want they will not use it, the standards body, without
any legal/ regulatory power behind it, succumbs. That is its only
way to remain relevant, it thinks. <br>
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I dont see why W3C should be so afraid of the TV/ movie style
content going away from the Web to native apps. Let it go. That was
not supposed to the Internet's content model - and we should not try
try to change the Internet/ Web standards to play good to owners of
such content... The alternative, egalitarian, content model of a p2p
platform is what Internet/ web was supposed to be. This is the
opportunity to keep that central character or lose it.<br>
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parminder <br>
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Best
Anriette
On 12/04/2017 10:42, Norbert Bollow wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Those who have been here for a while will remember IGC's 2013
statement in opposition to the efforts at W3C to introduce DRM to the
web by means of a standardized interface called "Encrypted Media
Extensions" (EME).
This has unfortunately nevertheless gone forward at W3C and is now close
to formal approval as a W3C Recommendation.
That means that now is the final opportunity for Sir Tim Berners-Lee to
use his veto power in this matter.
The Just Net Coalition has just sent him an open letter, urging him to
do so.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_objection.pdf">http://www.justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_objection.pdf</a>
Our corresponding press release is at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_pressrelease.pdf">http://www.justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_pressrelease.pdf</a>
There is also a recent statement from APC on this issue:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/apc-statement-emerging-tension-between-corporate-a">https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/apc-statement-emerging-tension-between-corporate-a</a>
A statement from two members of the European Parliament is at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/04/open-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-encry">https://juliareda.eu/2017/04/open-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-encry</a>
pted-media-extensions/
A statement from the UNESCO Secretariat is at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/eme_letter_frank_la_rue.pdf">https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/eme_letter_frank_la_rue.pdf</a>
The W3C response to the UNESCO statement is at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6225">https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6225</a>
The open letter from the Just Net Coalition comments on the W3C
response to the UNESCO statement.
Greetings,
Norbert
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