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Don't blame Tim for what we ALL have done to the Internet since three decades. This was the inevitable result of commercialisation. Tim can't stop it, no matter
by Santosh83 9y ago
Don't blame Tim for what we ALL have done to the Internet since three decades. This was the inevitable result of commercialisation. Tim can't stop it, no matter how much respect/influence he might have. DRM (as an abstract idea) won't go until we stop having to earn money to survive, and I don't see THAT happening soon. The Internet has just become the latest arena where the age-old battle is playing out.
- dasil003 9y agoThis. People don't understand the forces at work here. They think we can get a coalition of free software advocates to prevent the march of DRM, but they fail to realize that content rights-holders have market clout. Consumers will jump through whatever stupid hoops they put up. Meanwhile, free software advocates have no market clout, if they succeed in killing EME in a browser, then the general consumer perception will be that that browser is broken and will lose marketshare. This situation sucks, and I fought against it professionally for almost a decade, but at the end of the day if there's a market need for something, tech will be built for it in a completely amoral fashion.