[governance] FW: [IP] Cory Doctorow: The Full Orwell

[Mawaki Chango]

Does anyone know about the actual status with HTML5 in relation to the DRM
issue? A while ago I saw inputs/comments/analyses of the issues by a number
of organizations (eg, EFF, etc... if my memory is correct.) Have some of
these been taking into account? Has anything improved since in terms of the
"next generation" browser design?

This can be such a burden on the user! Not to mention the limitations to
autonomy and privacy. A little more than a decade ago, I had a laptop and a
CD-Rom both purchased in Paris. Then while in Maputo, I couldn't use the CD
(which, mind you, was not even for entertainment but clearly something
related to work) when I was randomly prompted to enter some code which I
didn't have because it was only inside the CD box/ outer jacket left back
in Paris. From my recollection, the problem was at least in part prompted
by the fact that I was trying to access my materials from a country that
was not listed among the geographic areas for which the standards for the
CD/DVD reader were designed (although it could technically work, since both
laptop and CD are the same whether used in France or in Mozambique or
anywhere else for that matter... Because of my geolocation data at the
time, I was just being suspected with an attempt to usurp intellectual
property.) Some of those practices felt/feel like we are supposed to live,
work and die in only one place, presumably the one where we once were born,
while in same time we've been celebrating the ability of the internet to
extend our boundaries of self and to augment our reality in a global and
ubiquitous way.

While I realize the experience above did not involve any browser per se,
data was still being transmitted over the Internet for DRM purposes.
Have we been smarter handling this since then? Is the way DRM issues are
being handled with this HTML5 proving any more smarter?

Mawaki


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> From: "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>
> To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
> Subject: [governance] FW: [IP] Cory Doctorow: The Full Orwell
> Date: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 7:58 AM
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> From: Dewayne Hendricks
> Date: Saturday, January 11, 2014
> Subject: Cory Doctorow: The Full Orwell
> To: Dave Farber <dave at farber.net>
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> We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell
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> Try as I might, I can't shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the
> Web. The W3C push for DRM in all browsers is going to ensure that all
> interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty much everything) will be
> opaque to users, and it will be illegal to report on security flaws in them
> (because reporting a security flaw in DRM exposes you to risk of prosecution
> for making a circumvention device), so they will be riddled with holes that
> creeps, RATters, spooks, authoritarians and crooks will be able to use to
> take over your computer and fuck you in every possible way.
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> Link to the full article:
> <http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/72759474218/we-are-huxleying
> -ourselves-into-the-full-orwell>
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