Un danno enorme alla reputazione del W3C. Sarebbe importante riflettere sui processi che portano alla creazione di standard meno permeabili agli interessi delle aziende. m.c. In data martedì 11 luglio 2017 06:54:35 CEST, Alberto Cammozzo ha scritto:

<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-controversy-w3c-gr eenlights-drm-web>

By Cory Doctorow <https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cory-doctorow> July 6, 2017

Early today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body publicly announced <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2017Jul/0000.html> 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 its staff and members over this issue.

EME is a standardized way for web video platforms to control users' browsers, so that we can only watch the videos under rules they set. This kind of technology, commonly called Digital Rights Management (DRM), is backed up by laws like the United States DMCA Section 1201 (most other countries also have laws like this).

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