Cory Doctorow's talk on DRM

by Miguel de Icaza

Cory from the EFF went to Microsoft to talk about DRM, here is a transcript which should be mandatory reading.

Joel keeps pumping out the gems.

Most importantly, he follows up with a concrete list of features that the web needs. Now is the time for all good hackers to join the Mozilla development.

A key to the proposal from Joel is that some high-level features must be incorporated into HTML in some form, and not be limited to server-side controls implemented with a particular technology (ASP.NET or Struts or PHP): it should be something that can be placed on a static HTML page.

Posted on 19 Jun 2004