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# Defective By Design Campaign Against W3C DRM Standard
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[As I had mentioned late last week][0], RMS had mentioned that Defective By
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Design (DBD) would be campaigning against the [introduction of DRM into the W3C
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HTML5 standards][1]. (Please see [my previous mention of this topic][0] for a
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detailed explanation of the problem and a slew of references for additional
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information.) Well, [this campaign is now live and looking for
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signatures][2]---50,000 by May 3rd, which is the [International Day Against
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DRM][3]:
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> Hollywood is at it again. Its latest ploy to take over the Web? Use its
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> influence at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to weave [Digital
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> Restrictions Management (DRM)][4] into HTML5 -- in other words, into the very
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> fabric of the Web.
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> [...]
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> Help us reach 50,000 signers by May 3rd, 2013, the [International Day Against
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> DRM][3]. We will deliver the signatures to the W3C (they are right down the
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> street from us!) and [make your voice heard[[1].
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[0]: /2013/03/html5-drm
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[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/defend-open-web-keep-drm-out-w3c-standards
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[2]: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5
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[3]: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm
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[4]: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm
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To summarize the issue as [stated by the EFF][5]:
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> W3C is there to create comprehensible, publicly-implementable standards that
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> will guarantee interoperability, not to facilitate an explosion of new
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> mutually-incompatible software and of sites and services that can only be
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> accessed by particular devices or applications. But EME is a proposal to bring
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> exactly that dysfunctional dynamic into HTML5, even risking a return to the
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> ["bad old days, before the Web"][5] of deliberately limited
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> interoperability.
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> it would be a terrible mistake for the Web community to leave the door open
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> for Hollywood's gangrenous anti-technology culture to infect W3C standards.
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So please---[sign the petition now][2]!
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[5]: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/index.html
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