A DRM standard has been approved for the web, and security researchers are worried

EASTER · Jul 8, 2017

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/8/15942238/web-drm-standard-eme-approved-controversy

The standards body for the web has approved a system for handling DRM video after a long and controversial debate — one that security researchers and open web advocates vow to continue.

The new standard is called EME, or Encrypted Media Extensions, and it allows DRM systems to hook directly into your browser. That way, Netflix and other streaming video services can protect their shows and movies without making users install annoying, often insecure plugins like Flash or Silverlight. On that note, it’s a win. But in other ways, EME’s approval has a lot of people concerned.
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lotuseclat79 · Jul 13, 2017

Global Web standard for integrating DRM into browsers hits a snag

EFF: Protections needed to “engage in lawful activity that DRM gets in the way of.”
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EASTER · Jul 14, 2017

lotuseclat79 said: ↑

Global Web standard for integrating DRM into browsers hits a snag

-- Tom
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Thanks for the update on this.

We'll keep you posted on developments to this complicated and highly nuanced issue as they unfold. Doctorow notes that the W3C appeals process "has never been successfully used in W3C history."

"If five percent of the members appeal a decision by the Director," Doctorow wrote, "all members are entitled to vote, and if there's a majority in favor of overruling the Director, the decision is unmade."
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Minimalist · Sep 19, 2017

DRM now a formal Web recommendation after protest vote fails
Anti-piracy and anti-copying protections are now formally part of the World Wide Web after an effort to vote down content controls at the WWW's standards body failed.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been embroiled in controversy for five years over the introduction of the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification. It finally went to a vote and was approved by 58.4 per cent, with 30.8 per cent opposed and the rest abstaining.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/18/w3c_approves_eme/

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