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Stephen Downes

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Cory Doctorow takes Tim Berners-Lee to the woodshed on DRM in web standards. "The W3C has a duty to send the DRM-peddlers packing, just as the US courts did in the case of digital TV. There is no market for DRM, no public purpose served by granting a veto to unaccountable, shortsighted media giants who dream of a world where your mouse rings a cash-register with every click."

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