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Re: [linux_var] Fwd: #DialUp to save the Web from DRM

Ciao lista,

ho letto anche su reddit della cosa, ma sinceramente la cosa meno sensata al mondo mi sembra proprio intasare la linea telefonica lavorativa di Berners-Lee.

Non ho trovato informazioni, però, se l'abbia chiesto direttamente Berners-Lee o sia una iniziativa diretta della FSF. Tu Elena sai darmi delucidazioni?

Ciao,
Riccardo

On March 31, 2017 9:19:34 AM GMT+02:00, Elena ``of Valhalla'' <valhalla-l@trueelena.org> wrote:
>TL;DR: per la prossima campagna contro l'adozione di DRM negli standard
>del W3C chiedono di fare una telefonata (c'è anche un numero italiano)
>di supporto.
>
>----- Forwarded message from "Zak Rogoff, DBD"
><info@defectivebydesign.org> -----
>
>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:44:06 -0400
>From: "Zak Rogoff, DBD" <info@defectivebydesign.org>
>To: Elena Grandi <elena.valhalla@gmail.com>
>Subject: #DialUp to save the Web from DRM
>Message-Id: <E1ctkfe-000834-3R@crmserver1p>
>
>
>Elena Grandi—
>
>Since the beginning of the Web—the age of dial-up Internet
>connections—the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has kept the Web's
>technical standards tuned in a careful balance that enables innovation
>and respects users' rights.
>
>**14 days from now, that may change. Unless we can stop it, the W3C
>  will welcome a new wave of user-hostile [DRM (Digital Restrictions
>  Management)][1] onto the Web, making it harder than ever for us to
>  be secure and free online.**
>
>[1]:
>https://defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_management
>
>The wave of DRM will come from the W3C's ratification of a proposed
>technical standard, [EME (Encrypted Media Extensions)][2], which will
>make it cheaper and easier for streaming video companies to build DRM
>into Web sites. That will invite more abuses of users like the Sony
>DRM rootkit, caught [dismantling the security of users' operating
>systems][3], and more digital locks preventing important, legal things
>that people do with media, like accessibility modifications,
>translation, commentary, and archiving.
>
>[2]: https://defectivebydesign.org/drm-in-web-standards
>[3]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ten-years-after-sony-rootkit
>
>Netflix, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are dead-set on EME. They are
>powerful—and their membership dues provide a lot of money to the
>W3C—but there is a weak link in their plan: Tim Berners-Lee, the
>Director of the W3C, can block EME when it comes to his desk on April
>13th.
>
>**This is where you come in: #DialUp Tim Berners-Lee now and urge him
>  not to endanger users by enshrining oppressive technology in the
>  basic standards of the Web.**
>
>**************************
>
># How to #DialUp for the free Web
>
>1: Call Tim Berners-Lee's [publicly listed][4] W3C phone number: +1
>(617) 253-5702. You will most likely reach his assistant or an
>answering machine.
>
>2: **Be polite and get straight to the point.** We recommend you say:
>
>> Hi, my name is [NAME] and I am calling to urge Tim Berners-Lee to
>  prevent Encrypted Media Extensions from becoming a W3C
>  recommendation. I believe that the Web should promote user freedom
>  and security, not undermine them. Please make sure that
>  Mr. Berners-Lee receives this message. Thank you.
>
>3: [Click this link][5] to email us, so we can announce how many
>people called Berners-Lee. You will not be automatically added to our
>email list (but you can join [here][6]).
>
>Can't call the US? Call your closest W3C office][7] (they are spread
>across the globe) and ask them to relay your message to Tim
>Berners-Lee.
>
>[4]: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
>[5]: mailto:campaigns@fsf.org?Subject=I%20called%20Tim%20Berners-Lee
>[6]: https://defectivebydesign.org/join
>[7]: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/staff/
>
>**************************
>
>Though EME is designed specifically for streaming video DRM, its
>ratification would catalyze long-simmering projects to add DRM to
>[text][8] and [image][9] standards on the Web. Perhaps worst of all,
>EME's ratification would lend political capital to the laws that make
>it a crime to circumvent DRM, even for security research, which is a
>crucial public accountability mechanism for software.
>
>[8]: http://idpf.org/epub-content-protection
>[9]:
>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/theres-no-drm-jpeg-lets-keep-it-way
>
>But we don't have to settle for this. There is deep opposition
>to EME within the W3C community—unsurprisingly, most of the people who
>dedicate their lives to improving the Web don't want DRM enshrined in
>it. Berners-Lee himself sees EME less as an improvement to the Web,
>and more as a [necessary evil to placate streaming companies and
>Hollywood][10]. If we can show him an unprecedented grassroots demand
>to reject DRM in Web standards, we have a chance to win on April
>13th. Stand up for the free Web you love, and #DialUp Tim Berners-Lee
>now.
>
>[10]:
>https://defectivebydesign.org/blog/response_tim_bernerslees_defeatist_post_about_drm_web_standards
>
>Zak Rogoff   
>Campaigns Manager
>
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