On 2013/10/04 23:13, David Singer wrote:
On Oct 4, 2013, at 6:10 , Emmanuel Revah <[email protected]> wrote:
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Are retarded business models that want to be on the web more important
than the web's users ? W3C says yes.
It just doesn't help to sling around insults like "retarded".
"Retarded" is an actual word that means something. Please, it's like
you've never heard this word outside of the context of a school
playground.
[..]
EME is broken (100% of DRM so far breaks at some point),
The goal is not to prevent all piracy all the time, but to sharply
reduce it. In that respect, it succeeds.
I would prefer instead that the goal be a way to include people like me
as clients of such services. By requiring control you alienate most
users who understand what EME requires from its clients.
[..]
and mostly (because this goes against clear W3C guidelines), it allows
"validated" websites to publish content that is not accessible to all.
That's true today for all sorts of content. There are still websites
that only work with IE6, for example.
0% percent of the websites that work only with IE6 are "W3C Valid".
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Emmanuel Revah
http://manurevah.com
