[governance] Re: Draft Statement #DRM HTML5/ was [Should the IGC support Formal Objection by EFF?] #DRM in HTML5

[McTim]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
>
> On 2 Jun 2013, at 08:34, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
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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.
>>
>>
>
> 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.
>
> I think that 'innovation' is one of those unidentifiables that everyone invokes in their statements no matter what position they are taking.
>
> - those advocating DRM say that without the money that DRM enables no one would innovate at all (i disagree btw)
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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.


of course not, it's overblown hyperbole.  'Stymie" or "hinder" are
better words, or just drop the para per Jeremy.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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