On 26/04/2013, at 9:38 PM, Alessandro Vesely <vesely@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Injecting DRM through EME is a disservice to web standardization, >>> since the latter is supposed to foster the Internet revolution. >> >> What does that *mean*? I'm wary of waving around banners like "the >> Internet revolution", since they can so easily be misused. > > The Internet revolution is the big step after the industrial > revolution. I didn't mean to misuse that banner: It is a typical > effect of industrial revolution to bring many workers to some large > factories. Free-software development, for a counter example, doesn't > fit into that model. I'd agree that the phenomenon is still young and > that the economics of the new model definitely need to be improved. > However, that cannot be done while sticking to the old production > model. Which direction is the media industry heading to? > > Watch-on-demand could have been implemented on private networks and > proprietary equipment. However, cables had not been laid until the > Internet took root, and that was pushed by the web. The direction of > history seems to be clear enough to allow taking a firm position. Well said. > If you haven't done so already, please sign the FSF petition: > http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5 -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/