Neowin News Feed for: Eme

Electronic Frontier Foundation resigns from the W3C over DRM policy

Paul Hill — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 08:58:01 +0000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has decided it will leave the World Wide Web Consortium saying that the decision making process has been corrupted by corporate elements set on implementing DRM. Read more...

W3C approves a DRM standard for the web which has security researchers worried

Stergios Georgopoulos — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 01:28:01 +0000

The World Wide Web Consortium has approved Encrypted Media Extensions, a new internet DRM standard which has many people concerned, though all major browsers have been supporting it for years. Read more...

Activists marched to Tim Berners-Lee's office to protest EME DRM

Paul Hill — Mon, 15 May 2017 14:42:01 +0000

A group called Ethics in Tech held a legal march in Cambridge, MA on Saturday with their final destination being Tim Berners-Lee's office. They were aiming to stop EME (DRM) becoming a web standard. Read more...

Decision by Tim Berners-Lee might have stopped DRM from creeping into web standards

Paul Hill — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 02:06:02 +0000

Tim Berners-Lee has passed a decision to the W3C Advisory Committee on whether to extend the EME development through to March 31, 2017. The committee is divided on EME and could stop development. Read more...