[bestbits] [governance] W3C Encrypted Media Extensions

[parminder]

On Wednesday 12 April 2017 09:05 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
> 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' :)

Dear Anriette

In this write up for IP Watch, I try to respond to justifications given
in the W3C response. It is at
https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/04/13/web-crossroads-new-standard-enables-copyright-enforcement-violating-users-rights/


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.

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.

parminder


>
> Best
>
> Anriette
>
>
> On 12/04/2017 10:42, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> http://www.justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_objection.pdf
>>
>> Our corresponding press release is at:
>>
>> http://www.justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_pressrelease.pdf  
>>
>>
>> There is also a recent statement from APC on this issue:
>>  
>> https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/apc-statement-emerging-tension-between-corporate-a 
>>
>> A statement from two members of the European Parliament is at:
>>
>> https://juliareda.eu/2017/04/open-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-encry
>> pted-media-extensions/ 
>>
>> A statement from the UNESCO Secretariat is at:
>>
>>   https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/eme_letter_frank_la_rue.pdf 
>>
>> The W3C response to the UNESCO statement is at:
>>
>>   https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6225 
>>
>> The open letter from the Just Net Coalition comments on the W3C
>> response to the UNESCO statement.
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>>
>>
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