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FSF Activists Want You To Call Tim Berners-Lee About DRM (boingboing.net)
"The Free Software Foundation is calling on netizens to make calls to the W3C demanding they not include DRM in Web standards," an anonymous reader writes. Cory Doctorow reports:
There's only two weeks left until members of the World Wide Web Consortium vote on whether the web's premier open standards organization will add DRM to the toolkit available to web developers, without effecting any protections for people who discover security vulnerabilities that affect billions of web users, let alone people who adapt web tools for those with disabilities and people who create legitimate, innovative new technologies to improve web video.
Tim Berners-Lee has final say over this change, according to the article, which directs callers to urge him to "keep the web free and open, rather than rescuing DRM from its slow collapse due to the complexity of fielding and supporting it without standards like those the W3C makes."
Tim Berners-Lee has final say over this change, according to the article, which directs callers to urge him to "keep the web free and open, rather than rescuing DRM from its slow collapse due to the complexity of fielding and supporting it without standards like those the W3C makes."
I really don't understand the FSF anymore. "Let's go after the symptoms instead of the disease! Let's divide our own supporters!
This is nothing new. The FSF waged a civil war for over a decade against "Open Source Software" as opposed to "Free Software" despite them being just two different terms for the same thing.
What attitude would you like to have? Because it doesn't matter. Despite your Matrix-fueled self-aggrandizing fantasies, your opinion counts exactly nothing.
Nobody is completely powerless. Everyone has some degree of influence and everyone has some capacity to increase the amount of influence they have in exchange for sufficient input of effort.
Whining about being totally helpless while doing exactly nothing is in my matrix-fueled self-aggrandized fantasy p a t h e t i c.
It makes you no different from the typical whiner who complains about their government while not even bothering to vote.
You are not in any position to fight this. You have never been. You will never be.
I have never been involved in W3C process nor have I contributed any code or participated in any related working groups. DRM is not my fight. I myself don't care enough about this topic to do anything other than publically object, make half-assed attempts to build public consensus for the same and refrain from using the technology myself.
Now you can be angry, cry, pull your hair and despair over this or behave like an adult being and understand that some things are way beyond your ability to do anything about them, and you should just accept them and move on with your life.
I'm not the type to accept bullshit I judge to be harmful. I might be forced to deal with harmful behavior but acceptance.... dream the fuck on... not a snowballs chance in hell.
Spend quite a bit of my own time working code and standards to address problems I care most about seeing resolved. I don't despair over being "outnumbered and outgunned".
Seriously, is your life over just because DRM becomes a standard? If it's the case your life has never been worth anything to begin with. Sorry for you.
Hyperbole is a drink best sipped rather than guzzled from a beer bong.