Re: [wlug] EFF resigns from W3C - An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:28:45 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:

'In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” an API whose sole function was to provide a first-class role for DRM within the Web browser ecosystem.'

Big Content continues to believe that the Internet needs them more than they need the Internet. The history of how the Internet became dominant over proprietary content-delivery systems that were set up in its early days, and even before it became popular, show that the opposite is true.