The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has called on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reconsider its decision to incorporate digital locks into official HTML standards. Last week, W3C announced its decision to publish Encrypted Media… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘DRM’
Net Neutrality Won't Save Us if DRM is Baked Into the Web
Yesterday’s record-smashing Net Neutrality day of action showed that the Internet’s users care about an open playing field and don’t want a handful of companies to decide what we can and can’t do online. Today, we should also think about… Read More ›
Notice to the W3C of EFF's appeal of the Director's decision on EME
[[Update, July 13: After consultation with W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe on timing, we’ve temporarily withdrawn this appeal, for one week, for purely logistical purposes. I am teaching a workshop all next week at UC San Diego and will re-file the… Read More ›
New Research Estimates Value of Removing DRM Locks
Note: We’ve been in touch with a group of economists at the University of Glasgow who are investigating the market value on interoperability. Just in time for “Day Against DRM,” here are some of their initial conclusions. My co-authors and… Read More ›
Amid Unprecedented Controversy, W3C Greenlights DRM for the Web
Early today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body publicly announced its intention to publish Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)—a DRM standard for web video—with no safeguards whatsoever for accessibility, security research or competition, despite an unprecedented internal controversy among… Read More ›
What's up at the W3C: further reading for Reply All listeners
The latest episode of the technology podcast Reply All features an excellent summary of some of the issues with the World Wide Web Consortium’s current project to create a standard for restricting the use of videos on the web; we’ve… Read More ›
Indefensible: the W3C says companies should get to decide when and how security researchers reveal defects in browsers
The World Wide Web Consortium has just signaled its intention to deliberately create legal jeopardy for security researchers who reveal defects in its members’ products, unless the security researchers get the approval of its members prior to revealing the embarrassing… Read More ›
Won't someone please think of the bikers?
If there’s anything more remarkable than the fact that five states are debating “Right to Repair” bills that make it legal for you to fix your own property, it’s that these bills are needed in the first place. Can it… Read More ›
The World Wide Web Consortium at a Crossroads: Arms-Dealers or Standards-Setters?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a hard decision to make: a coalition including the world’s top research institutions; organizations supporting blind users on three continents; security firms; blockchain startups; browser vendors and user rights groups have asked it… Read More ›
Tell the Copyright Office: Copyright Law Shouldn't Punish Research and Repair
After eighteen years, we may finally see real reform to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s unconstitutional pro-DRM provisions. But we need your help. In enacting the “anti-circumvention” provisions of the DMCA, Congress ostensibly intended to stop copyright “pirates” from defeating… Read More ›