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[Julian DeMarchi <julian AT jdcomputers.com.au>]

On 05/30/2013 10:25 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> On 05/30/2013 07:44 AM, subhuman wrote:
>> > http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5
>> > 
>> > in case you're in the US: start spreading the news and sign the petition 
>> > - unless you already did, that is. ;-)
>> > 
>> > --martin
>> > 
> This issue isn't US-specific, nor are the only victims Americans. Get
> everyone to sign it and fight it. This is the Hollywood Mafia's wet
> dream, a North-Korean-style Internet in the Hollywood Mafia's hands that
> they can shut down at will, the greatest threat to freedom of the press
> since the pre-Vatican-II Catholic Church.

To play devils advocate here...

DRM in HTML5 might not be _that_ bad. If we don't need a third party app
to watch their content, it is a small win for us.

It could have the potential to open netflix up to linux users?

I'm not for *DRM* at all. What I think though is having it in there is
better then a third party app for DRM...

--julian