We call on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its member organizations to reject the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal (EME), which would incorporate support for Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML.
EME would be an irreversible step backward for freedom on the Web. It would endorse and enable business models that unethically restrict users, and it would make subjugation to particular media companies a precondition for full Web citizenship. Just as Flash and Silverlight are finally dying off, we should not replace them with the media giants’ latest control fantasy.
Furthermore, EME contradicts the W3C’s core values. It would hamper interoperability by encouraging the proliferation of DRM plugins. It would fly in the face of the W3C’s principle of keeping the Web royalty-free — this is simply a back door for media companies to require proprietary player software. It is willful ignorance to pretend otherwise just because the proposal does not mention particular technologies or DRM schemes by name.
W3C and member organizations: don’t weave DRM into the fabric of the Web.
http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/stop-drm-in-html5
The reason it matters whether LBT is covered is that if it is then it would either be necessary to join (£££) the regulatory process or to face certain (rather than not quite certain) financial ruin should someone commence a legal process about any of the content of the blog — and since our group’s academic work is occasionally contentious, that’s not just a theoretical risk.
It’s clearly most unsatisfactory that legislation this important is so unclear, and that the Government are determined to rush it through Parliament within days rather than thinking the complexities through… the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act is usually cited as the poster child for knee-jerk legislation that is much the worse for the rush to put it on the statute books. We seem to be heading the same way here.
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2013/03/22/dangerous-blogs-act
On Monday 4 March, EDRi celebrated its 10th anniversary at the European Parliament in Brussels.
http://edri.org/edri10
Mejorar los servicios del registro territorial de la propiedad intelectual, sobre obras,
actuaciones y producciones originales protegidas por la ley de propiedad intelectual, mediante la puesta en marcha del servicio de respuesta inmediata “SERIS”, que además de poner el contenido del registro a disposición de los ciudadanos, permite obtener de forma inmediata certificados válidos para por ejemplo iniciar el procedimiento de cierre de páginas web que vulneren los derechos de autor.
http://blogs.zemos98.org/petroglifo/2...uperheroe-andaluz-contra-la-pirateria
El procedimiento administrativo muestra todo su poder: la posibilidad de que te multen con hasta 600k euros sin que un juez examine tu caso.
http://www.eldiario.es/zonacritica/20...ue-es-mas-peligrosa-de-lo-que-parecia
disciplina ciudadana, sociedad de control y fervor prohibicionista.
http://eltransito.me/2012/05/21/ni-botellon-ni-asamblea
No es pedir inmunidad, es pedir que se respeten las libertades básicas
http://www.kozzak.net/bloc/ciutats-intel%C2%B7ligents-i-procomu-induit
En México avanza el seguimiento de personas sin orden judicial
http://libertas87.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/confianza-y-telecomunicaciones
La policía entregando datos personales a empresas privadas, ¿a cambio de nada?
http://derechoynormas.blogspot.com/20...policia-y-la-cesion-de-datos-las.html
Internet es grande, se trata de crear en ella los espacios que sirvan de ZTA.
http://bloc.manelguerra.com/2012/01/31/internet-ja-no-es-una-zta
