[governance] Digital restrictions management in HTML standards

[Norbert Bollow]

Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> wrote:

> good point, but re;
> 
> > Further, those who hold the keys to those mechanisms (in particular,
> > the encryption keys) are not likely to allow them be used on Free
> > Software operating systems 
> 
> Is this really the case?

In view of all the effort that has gone into developing and deploying
"trusted platform module" hardware to support locking things down, I
think it extremely implausible that the proponents of DRM would allow
the glaring hole in the fence around DRM-encumbered content to exist
that would be constituted by allowed the locked-down content to be
accessed on Free Software operating systems -- unless of course perhaps
temporarily for tactical reasons during initial phases of marketing the
stuff before it has become generally accepted (in order to minimize the
opposition) or because they're forced to do so by regulation (but in
view of the generally low market share of Free Software operating
systems, how likely is it for governments to take regularatory action to
prevent the extinction of Free Software operating systems as a viable
option for general purpose use?)

Greetings,
Norbert

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