Standards leader blasts HTML5 video copy protection | Deep Tech - CNET News

“Any technology whose exclusive goal is to stop users from being able to make use of the content they have purchased is, in my opinion, unethical. DRM takes away users’ rights. For example, if I buy a TV show and want to criticise a scene from the show it on my blog, but the TV show is DRMed, how do I extract the scene, as I’m supposed to be able to per my Fair Use rights? How do I use DRMed content for the purpose of parody if it is DRMed? How do I watch DRMed content that I bought on one device on another device? How do I watch DRMed content that I bought, after the company providing the DRM servers goes bankrupt and shuts them down? These are all rights I have, yet DRM prevents me from exercising them.” – Ian Hickson http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57384129-264/standards-leader-blasts-html5-video-copy-protection/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title