This edition of Music What Kicketh Political Ass brings you a bit of Faustian verse, not even my best, but I trust it will do... |
Originally published over at the blog less traveled,
Lets Do And Say We Did,
with my other verse.
Be seeing you.
This edition of Music What Kicketh Political Ass brings you a bit of Faustian verse, not even my best, but I trust it will do... |
W3C green-lights adding DRM to
the Web's standards,
says it's OK for your browser to say "I can't let you do that, Dave"
by Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
Here's the bad news: the World Wide Web Consortium is going ahead with its plan to add DRM to HTML5, setting the stage for browsers that are designed to disobey their owners and to keep secrets from them so they can't be forced to do as they're told.
... now that it's kosher to contemplate locking up browsers against their owners, we'll see every kind of control-freakery come out of the woodwork, from flags that prevent "View Source" to restricting embedded fonts to preventing image downloading to Javascript that you can't save and run offline. Indeed, some of this stuff is already underway ...
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