"Due to massive pushback from the likes of the MPAA [and] Netflix, Tim Berners-Lee rejected this covenant proposal."https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170712/10262037770/eff-officially-appeals-tim-berners-lee-decision-drm-html.shtml …
1: We'll never know if your game theory is right because we were too cowardly to try.
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2: if the browser vendors and content producers actually maintained a long term blockade against EFF-included EME, your argument ...
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3/3: would hold water. It's hardly an argument for the Director to compromise with ourselves and capitulate ahead of time.
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But it sounds like you're backing up what I said earlier: W3C management, and especially TBL, have long believed capitulation inevitable.
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It's not like he's been coy about it either. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2091d4/i_am_tim_bernerslee_i_invented_the_www_25_years/cg0y6o4/ …
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Wow, TBL posted a Nixonian "Dirty Hipster!" meme to his reddit AMA, making Netflix users who object to EME out as hypocrites? I missed that!
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Not inconsistent to subscribe to Netflix + object to HTML5 growing a DRM-shaped hole fillable only by closed source w/ toxic law backing it.
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