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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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