Human rights coalition from the global south to W3C: don't put DRM in web standards!
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2JW1Y)
The Just Net Coalition -- whose membership roll includes leading human rights organisations from across the global south -- have written urgently to the World Wide Web Coalition and its founder, Tim Berners-Lee, calling on him to intervene to stop the Consortium from publishing its first-ever DRM standard, a system for restricting video streams called Encrypted Media Extensions. (more")