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Ian Hickson

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Name: Ian Hickson

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

How the war on hackers is picking our pockets and risking our lives

You wouldn't steal a car… so why steal our ability to rip DVDs?Yesterday, Sense About Science held its annual lecture, given by author and activist Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing fame). Doctorow's talk was on the topic of internet freedom (and will apparently ... [Published New Statesman - May 14 2013]

Entities: Computer Hacker, Cory Doctorow, Encryption

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

US Bill Makes It Legal to Bypass DRM If There's No Copyright Infringement Involved

The US Congress is finally moving to fix some of the biggest problems with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, tackling the anti-circumvention provision of the law.The proposed bill, supported by several Representatives, tackles the problem head-on ... [Published Softpedia - May 10 2013]

Entities: Copyright Infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, HTML5, Ian Hickson, HTML

First reported Mar 22 2013 - Updated Mar 22 2013 - 1 reports

Shinhan Bank

Four short links: 22 March 2013

Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards (EFF) — W3C is there to create comprehensible, publicly-implementable standards that will guarantee interoperability, not to facilitate an explosion of new mutually-incompatible software and of sites ... [Published O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and researc ... - Mar 22 2013]

Entities: Botnet, World Wide Web Consortium, Ian Hickson, Korea Gas Corporation, Shinhan Bank

First reported Mar 21 2013 - Updated Mar 21 2013 - 1 reports

Apple Inc

Boot up: DRM's real purpose, Apple v EU, Samsung's lockscreen bypassed, and more

Plus X-ray Android malware, CyanogenMod rows back on S4, Google's realtime Docs API, Samsung v Google, and more A burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Kinky Android X-ray app laid bare as malware >> The Register ... [Published Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk - Mar 21 2013]

Entities: Samsung Group, Apple Inc, Google Inc

First reported Mar 20 2013 - Updated Mar 20 2013 - 1 reports

World Wide Web Consortium

HTML5's overseer says DRM's true purpose is to prevent legal innovation

Ian Hickson, the googler who is overseeing the HTML5 standard at the W3C, has written a surprisingly frank piece on the role of DRM. As he spells out in detail, the point of DRM isn't to stop illegal copying, it's to stop legal forms of innovation from ... [Published Boing Boing - Mar 20 2013]

Entities: Invention, Patent, World Wide Web Consortium

First reported Feb 12 2013 - Updated Feb 13 2013 - 2 reports

DRM for the Web? Say It Ain’t So.

So far it ain’t so, but some form of DRM in HTML is becoming a more likely possibility every day. The W3C’s HTML Working Group recently decided that a proposal to add DRM to HTML media elements — formally known as the Encrypted Media Extensions ... [Published Wired: Compiler - Feb 12 2013]

Entities: HTML, World Wide Web Consortium, Encryption, Ian Hickson

First reported Dec 11 2012 - Updated Dec 11 2012 - 2 reports

Proposed ‘main’ Element Would Help Your HTML Get to the Point

div id="attachment_60296" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 248px"> Your content goes here. Image: Frédéric Bisson/Flickr HTML5 has several new tags designed to make HTML more semantic — there’s for navigation elements, for ... [Published Wired: Compiler - Dec 11 2012]

Entities: HTML, HTML5, World Wide Web Consortium

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How the war on hackers is picking our pockets a... [Published New Statesman - May 14 2013]
US Bill Makes It Legal to Bypass DRM If There's... [Published Softpedia - May 10 2013]
Netflix set to abandon Silverlight but introduc... [Published InfoWorld - Apr 16 2013]
Four short links: 22 March 2013 [Published O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and researc ... - Mar 22 2013]
Boot up: DRM's real purpose, Apple v EU, Samsun... [Published Technology: Technology blog \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 21 2013]
HTML5's overseer says DRM's true purpose is to ... [Published Boing Boing - Mar 20 2013]
DRM for the Web? Say It Ain’t So. [Published Wired: Compiler - Feb 12 2013]
DRM for the Web? Say It Ain’t So. [Published Wired Webmonkey - Feb 12 2013]
Heading Towards Structure And Clarity: The Impo... [Published Smashing Magazine - Jan 18 2013]
Proposed ‘main’ Element Would Help Your HTML Ge... [Published Wired: Compiler - Dec 11 2012]
Proposed ‘main’ Element Would Help Your HTML Ge... [Published Wired Webmonkey - Dec 11 2012]
An epitaph for the Web standard, XHTML 2 [Published CNET News.com - Jul 08 2009]
Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate [Published ArsTechnica - Jul 05 2009]

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Four short links: 22 March 2013 [Published O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and researc ... - Mar 22 2013] Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards (EFF) — W3C is there to create comprehensible, publicly-implementable standards that will guarantee interoperability, not to facilitate an explosion of new mutually-incompatible software and of sites ...
Boot up: DRM's real purpose, Apple v EU, Samsun... [Published Technology: Technology blog \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 21 2013] Plus X-ray Android malware, CyanogenMod rows back on S4, Google's realtime Docs API, Samsung v Google, and more A burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Kinky Android X-ray app laid bare as malware >> The Register ...
HTML5's overseer says DRM's true purpose is to ... [Published Boing Boing - Mar 20 2013] Ian Hickson, the googler who is overseeing the HTML5 standard at the W3C, has written a surprisingly frank piece on the role of DRM. As he spells out in detail, the point of DRM isn't to stop illegal copying, it's to stop legal forms of innovation from ...
DRM for the Web? Say It Ain’t So. [Published Wired: Compiler - Feb 12 2013] So far it ain’t so, but some form of DRM in HTML is becoming a more likely possibility every day. The W3C’s HTML Working Group recently decided that a proposal to add DRM to HTML media elements — formally known as the Encrypted Media Extensions ...
DRM for the Web? Say It Ain’t So. [Published Wired Webmonkey - Feb 12 2013] So far it ain’t so, but some form of DRM in HTML is becoming a more likely possibility every day. The W3C’s HTML Working Group recently decided that a proposal to add DRM to HTML media elements — formally known as the Encrypted Media Extensions ...