Are you trolling now? We have no leverage. W3C had it and failed, up to the Director, to use it. What leverage now, harsh language?
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Replying to @BrendanEich @wycats and
The leverage of Recommendation was already in play to try to get something better out of EME in 2014. It didn't work.
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Replying to @robinberjon @BrendanEich and
In 2014 the Director was already pushing for the EME that DRM purveyors wanted. Where's the leverage when you can get want you want by fiat?
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Replying to @wycats @BrendanEich and
I was in those discussions, it was my job to be. I can attest no one in W3C management pushed for DRM. It's just not true.
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"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 …
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Replying to @BrendanEich @wycats and
No offence but that article doesn't strike me as sourced and unbiased...
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Replying to @robinberjon @BrendanEich and
As someone "in the discussions" are you saying there wasn't massive pushback from the likes of MPAA and Netflix?
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Replying to @wycats @BrendanEich and
I cannot speak from fact in 2016-17, but before they essentially did not show up. A few messages, maybe. However, as I someone who gets...
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Replying to @robinberjon @wycats and
...anywhere near enough or pull something off on their own. This decision does not happen without browser vendors behind it, plain & simple.
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Replying to @robinberjon @wycats and
Three of four browser vendors are DRM vendors too. Again, the Director could have ruled for the compromise.
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You don't get to defend the BDFL and a feckless, fatalistic view of his powers.
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Replying to @wycats @BrendanEich and
I'm not defending BDFL, just pointing out it's not new.
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