FSF: Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in Web standards

The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign reportsthat Tim Berners-Lee decided not to exercise his power to extend thedevelopment timeline for the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Webtechnology standard. "Berners-Lee made his surprising decision onTuesday, as explained in an emailannouncement by W3C representative Philippe Le Hi(C)garet. Instead ofgranting a time extension - as he has already done once - Berners-Leedelegated the decision to the W3C's general decision-making body, the Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee includes diverse entities from universities to companies to nonprofits, and it is divided as to whether EME should be part of Web standards. It is entirely possible that the Advisory Committee will reject the time extension and terminate EME development, marking an important victory for the free Web."