[Cialug] World Wide Web Consortium Abandons Consensus, Standardizes DRM, EFF resigns

[Scott Yates]

Ya, this is highly un-good.

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Holy packets, Batman. WTF?
>
> World Wide Web Consortium Abandons Consensus, Standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
>
> Statement by Cory Doctorow:
>
> "The Director decided to personally override every single objection raised
> by the members, articulating several benefits that EME offered over the DRM
> that HTML5 had made impossible. ... That rejection prompted the first
> appeal against the Director in W3C history. ... So we'll keep fighting to
> keep the web free and open. ... It is a tragedy that we will be doing that
> without our friends at the W3C, and with the world believing that the
> pioneers and creators of the web no longer care about these matters.
> Effective today, EFF is resigning from the W3C."
>
> https://boingboing.net/2017/09/18/antifeatures-for-all.html
>
> --
> Todd
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