Open letter to from EFF to members of the W3C Advisory Committee
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1DHD2)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has made a sea-change: now, in addition to making open web standards that anyone can implement, they're creating a video DRM standard designed to prevent people from implementing it unless they have permission from the big movie and TV companies, by invoking the notorious Digital Millennium Copyright Act and its international equivalents. (more")