Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 307
An anonymous reader writes "Danny O'Brien from the EFF has a weblog post about how the Encrypted Media Extension (EME) proposal will continue to be part of HTML Work Group's bailiwick and may make it into a future HTML revision." From O'Brien's post: "A Web where you cannot cut and paste text; where your browser can't 'Save As...' an image; where the 'allowed' uses of saved files are monitored beyond the browser; where JavaScript is sealed away in opaque tombs; and maybe even where we can no longer effectively 'View Source' on some sites, is a very different Web from the one we have today. It's a Web where user agents—browsers—must navigate a nest of enforced duties every time they visit a page. It's a place where the next Tim Berners-Lee or Mozilla, if they were building a new browser from scratch, couldn't just look up the details of all the 'Web' technologies. They'd have to negotiate and sign compliance agreements with a raft of DRM providers just to be fully standards-compliant and interoperable."
The Internet will route around it... (Score:0, Funny)
People will use browsers and websites that don't use the DRM tech, and "big media" will wonder why their traffic dropped off... must be the pirates!
Re:Open source browsers? (Score:4, Funny)
Then why do I keep ending up here on Slashdot out of boredom?
Re:Open source browsers? (Score:4, Funny)
Because you don't know the latest address of ThePirateBay?