Fw: Tell W3C: We don't want the Hollyweb

[Vladimir Smolyar]

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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:10:40 -0400
From: "DefectiveByDesign.org" <in...@defectivebydesign.org>
To: Vladimir Smolyar <v_...@ukr.net>
Subject: Tell W3C: We don't want the Hollyweb


Dear Vladimir,

Hollywood is at it again. Its latest ploy to take over the Web? Use its
influence at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to weave Digital
Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML5 — in other words, into the
very fabric of the Web. Millions of Internet users came together to
defeat SOPA/PIPA, but now Big Media moguls are going through
non-governmental channels to try to sneak digital restrictions into
every interaction we have online. Giants like Netflix, Google,
Microsoft, and the BBC are all rallying behind this disastrous
proposal, which flies in the face of the W3C's mission to "lead the
World Wide Web to its full potential."

Some have mistakenly thought this proposal would finally end the use of
proprietary browser plugins like Silverlight and Flash. In reality,
this would only make it easier for companies to achieve the same
purpose via hooks in HTML itself. The difference would only be on
paper; in practice, users would experience the very same unethical
restrictions, platform incompatibilities, and device limitations as
with proprietary browser plugins.

The W3C can't *stop* companies from trying to use DRM on the Web, but
it can certainly withhold its endorsement and make it clear that it
won't *help* them do their dirty work.

Please take action:

* Tell the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its member
organizations not to embrace a proposal that undermines the very
purpose of the HTML standard upon which the Web is built -- freedom.
Sign the petition rejecting the Hollyweb here:
<http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5>
* Build momentum: use this page to share the petition far and wide:
<https://www.fsf.org/share?u=http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5&t=Stop%20the%20Hollyweb>
* If you have a Web site, paste in this code to embed our Hollyweb
image as a link to the petition: <a
href=“http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5”><img
src=“//static.fsf.org/dbd/hollywebshare.jpeg” alt=“Stop the Hollyweb!
No DRM in HTML5.” /></a>

If you want to learn more about the myths around this issue, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation has an excellent write-up which covers
all of the misleading discussion around the proposal and how, no matter
what platform or browser you use, this puts the Web as we know it at
stake. Read it here:
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/defend-open-web-keep-drm-out-w3c-standards>.

Read and share this message online at
<http://www.defectivebydesign.org/we-dont-want-the-hollyweb>.

Thanks for speaking up,
John, Libby, Zak, and Kyra

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Vladimir Smolyar
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