Reject DRM and You Risk Walling Off Parts of the Web, Says W3C Chief 433
An anonymous reader writes "Web technologies need to support DRM-protected media to reduce the risk of parts of the web being walled off, the chief executive of the web standards body W3C has told ZDNet. Dr Jeff Jaffe, CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium, says proposals to provide a hook for DRM-protected media within HTML, via Encrypted Media Extensions, are necessary to help prevent scenarios such as movie studios removing films from the web in a bid to protect them from piracy."
Re:Remove movies from the web? So what? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Good (Score:4, Informative)
The term they used was 'Halal Internet.'
'Halal' just means 'permitted under Islamic law.' The implication being that the internet outside is not permitted, because it is contaminated by unislamic content like blasphemy and pornography.
Jeff Jaffe's Contact Info (Score:4, Informative)