Hello,
This stopped my letter writing for today: "A new Web standard proposal
authored by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix seeks to bring copy
protection mechanisms to the Web. The Encrypted Media Extensions draft
defines a framework for enabling the playback of protected media
content in the Web browser. The proposal is controversial and has
raised concern among some parties that are participating in the
standards process."
<http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/unethical-html-video-copy-prot…>
Several key actors seem to be against it, but I think that the FSFE
should also issue a clear statement against this.
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United Kingdom seeking advice on open standards definition
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/united-kingdom-seeking-advice-open-standar…
The UK cabinet office is seeking advice on the definition of open
standards in the context of government IT. It posted its consultation
documents online last week Wednesday. The consultation follows the
withdrawing in November of a IT procurement policy in effect since in
January 2011.
http://fsfe.org/projects/os/os.htmlhttp://fsfe.org/projects/os/def.htmlhttp://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html
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Hi,
the Wall Street Journal has a very interesting interview with
Kader Arif, the former EP rapporteur on ACTA.
I've summarised it in a blog post:
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/02/15/either-acta-is-useless-or-it-is-a-…
Best regards,
Karsten
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