As someone "in the discussions" are you saying there wasn't massive pushback from the likes of MPAA and Netflix?
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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«I’ll give money to DRM, use Chrome, and let TBL just clean up! … Wait. What went wrong?»

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So blame dirty hipsters to excuse the W3C Director from upholding bare minimum open web principles via EFF's compromise? Rather, blame both.
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Now, only one of those two (Director, not hipsters) has authority to resolve failure to reach consensus in the World Wide Web Consortium.
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