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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 27, 2012 16:17 UTC (Mon) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)In reply to: "Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps (ars technica) by drago01 Parent article: "Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps (ars technica)
> Well there are a lot of reasons why one would disagree with such a
> proposal but I fail to see how it is "unethical".
It's not about "copying". DRM is about controlling the player- and the content-market.
So yes, it's clearly geared towards the production and well-being of monopolists, and thus unethical.
It's not illegal because those monopolists wrote the respectiva laws themselves...
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"Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps (ars technica) Posted Feb 28, 2012 7:50 UTC (Tue) by krake (subscriber, #55996) [Link]
> It's not about "copying". DRM is about controlling the player- and the content-market.
Exactly!
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