World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resigns

World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resigns
Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, 2017/09/19
Should digital rights management (DRM) be a world wide web standard? It's a tough question and so it's not surprising that the WWW Consortium (W3C) split almost down the middle on it. Now I've done work in DRM; I even have a patent in the area. But I have also argued consistently that DRM should be enforced in the resource, not the network. More...