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76 строки
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<html newsdate="2014-05-06">
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<title>Open Letter to European Commission: Stop DRM in HTML5</title>
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<body>
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<h1>Open Letter to European Commission: Stop DRM in HTML5</h1>
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<p>On today's <a href="http://dayagainstdrm.org/">"Day
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against DRM"</a>, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has sent <a
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href="/activities/drm/open-letter-ec-drm-html.html">an open letter to the
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European Commission, asking the EC to prevent Digital
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Restrictions Management technology from being closely integrated
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with the HTML5 standard</a>.</p>
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<p>FSFE is concerned about efforts currently in progress at the
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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to encourage the integration of Digital
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Restriction Management (DRM) technology into web browsers. The
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W3C oversees many of the key standards on which the World Wide Web
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is based.</p>
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<p>
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A W3C working group is currently standardising an "Encrypted Media
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Extension" (EME), which will allow companies to easily plug in
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non-free "Content Decryption Modules" (CDM) with DRM
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functionality, taking away users' control over their own
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computers. Most DRM technologies impose restrictions on users that
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go far beyond what copyright and consumers' rights allow.
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</p>
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<blockquote><p>"Integrating DRM facilities into HTML5 is the
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antithesis of everything that has made the Internet and the
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World Wide Web successful," says FSFE's President Karsten
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Gerloff. "It is directly contrary to the interests of the vast
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majority of Internet users everywhere."</p></blockquote>
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<p>Auditing the DRM modules will be both difficult and
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illegal. Their source code will be a closely held secret of the company
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which distributes the module. Performing an audit and reporting security
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flaws would also be illegal in the many countries which have
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adopted so-called "anti-circumvention" laws. Reporting a security
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problem in the DRM module would expose the reporter to the risk of
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lawsuits from the makers of that module. </p>
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<p>FSFE asks the European Commission to:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Engage with the W3C and ensure that the organisation takes
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these concerns on board as it decides on the adoption of the Encrypted
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Media Extension (EME).</li>
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<li>Pledge not to make use of the Encrypted Media Extension in
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its own infrastructure, even if EME were to be standardised by
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W3C.</li>
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<li>Protect people and companies from prosecution who
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reverse-engineer DRM technology and report vulnerabilities.</li>
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</ul>
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</body>
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<tag key="drm"/>
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