On 09/29/2018 05:14 PM, John McKenzie via use-livecode wrote:
Mark, I am glad I am not the only one who remembers Lee selling us
out. I do not put more validity or faith into the project because of
him. I just mentioned him because he was doing it. Still, mostly I want
to understand it. What really is it? The article just says it is to
create something we have.
Dunno yet. The article and the others just like it have a bunch of
startup pr hype and not much else. The Solid platform is up and the api
should be online Real Soon Now.
I for one say you are right to mention the DRM thing. We cannot forget.
To put it in some perspective, DRM itself isn't the problem, it's more
the nuances involved, especially as pertains to section 1201 of the
DMCA. Well, yes, DRM does remove all the user's rights in copyright,
letting corporations decide what your legal rights are. But legit things
people want to do with web technology are off limits, even talking about
defects in DRM that expose users to privacy breaches.
Case in point: some years ago I bought a DVD, stuck it in the DVD player
connected to the aux input of my TV, and found that I couldn't view it
because the TV had integrated anti-piracy software. The TV was a combo
TV and VCR, so obviously I was going to copy the DVD to videocassette
(remember this was some years ago) and the system was helpfully going to
stop me. The only way I could view the DVD was to rip it to a digital
file and watch it on the computer. Forced into piracy even though I had
purchased all the equipment and content. (OK - according the modern
EULAs I don't actually own anything, but that's a different subject. But
related.)
from Cory Doctorow's report from last year:
EFF proposed a simple compromise: extend the W3C's existing membership
agreement (whose patent rules make DRM possible in the first place) so
that W3C members couldn't sue people for bypassing DRM unless there was
also some kind of copyright violation or other illegal act in the mix.
The DRM advocates at W3C rejected this. After a perfunctory discussion,
they walked away from the negotiations and proceeded to ignore anyone at
W3C or on the web who disliked the idea of corporations getting to boss
around librarians, accessibility workers, security researchers and
innovators.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-controversy-w3c-greenlights-drm-web
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Mark Wieder
ahsoftw...@gmail.com
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