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"Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps (ars technica)

"Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps (ars technica)

Posted Feb 26, 2012 1:36 UTC (Sun) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: "Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps (ars technica) by AndreE
Parent article: "Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps (ars technica)

Sure, but there are two problems:
0) SD is good enough for large swaths of the population, depending on usage
1) A DRMed movie need only be cracked once to be playable everhwere in its original quality. Unless playback of *any* medium requires permission of some entity somewhere.


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