July 9th - International Day Against DRM
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The W3C has overruled members' objections and will publish its DRM for videos
The final vote was more controversial than any in W3C history. As the months ticked by afterward without a decision from W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, one W3C member proposed an even more modest compromise: a promise by W3C members not to sue security researchers who revealed defects in DRM that exposed users to privacy breaches. This was immediately rejected by Netflix and the CEO of the W3C and all discussion on it halted.
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Disposition of Comments for Encrypted Media Extensions and Director's decision
After consideration of the issues, the Director reached a decision that the EME specification should move to W3C Recommendation. [...]
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A DRM standard has been approved for the web, and security researchers are worried
Doctorow calls out a few specific points that have come up in the five-year-long debate over whether this standard should be approved. One is that there’s no protection for security researchers — in the US, breaking DRM, even for otherwise legal purposes, can be a crime, and the fact that EME doesn’t do anything about that keeps security researchers exposed to prosecution.
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