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

[Norbert Bollow]

Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know about the actual status with HTML5 in relation to
> the DRM issue?

Yes, I'm following this closely...

> 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?

No, things are still moving forward in accordance to entertainment
industry and proprietary platform vendor interests, without any
indication of the counterarguments being taken seriously.

> 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?

In some ways the EME (aka HTML5 DRM) architecture is a smarter way to
do a bad thing in comparison to previous DRM architectures; the changes
wouldn't help with the kind of geolocation issue that you describe.

My overall appraisal of the (actually very real) technical improvements
provided by the EME architecture is that the main effect is to make DRM
more dangerous, through likely greater market adoption.

Greetings,
Norbert

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