‏Chris Adams‎

@joshourisman Stay and enjoy Octoberfest longer? I’d suggest waiting until we have a government but you might need to start learning German…

Does NOAA have a black budget or something? Fall appears to have been shutdown… http://yfrog.com/nvj0tkp 

@escowles @rsinger … and even if if EME fails, those users will still have closed devices with DRM, strongly favoring the OS vendor

@escowles @rsinger I mean, how open is the browser on iOS / Android? Those are effectively closed and have hundreds of millions of users…

@escowles @rsinger I agree, but those have already happened either way. It's a separate issue which making the web less important won't help

@escowles @rsinger I feel the need to reiterate: I don’t want DRM but since it’s not going away I’d prefer it to have less collateral damage

@escowles @rsinger Theoretically, yes, but in practice people have no trouble buying billions of videos from iTunes, Amazon, etc.

@escowles @rsinger There are other factors: plugins, Flash in particular, are the biggest source of security holes, bar none

@rsinger @edsu Anyway, I obviously need to write something in a form-factor which allows more than 140 characters

@rsinger @edsu Yes but all of the tools are horrible bug-fests (i.e. $800, debugger doesn't work), API documentation is sub w3schools, etc.

@edsu @rsinger Exactly: we're pumping money into the Flash/Silverlight ecosystem which isn't going into web technologies

@rsinger @edsu We watch a ton of Netflix: DRM makes the content less valuable but they priced it accordingly

@edsu I wish we'd fight on user experience and copyright reform (i.e. time/device-shifting), as well as “It doesn't actually prevent piracy”

@escowles @rsinger I'm really with Mozilla's @asadotzler on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6492027  Alternative is Flash/Silverlight or native apps

@escowles @rsinger That argument started in DVD era: how many more decades should we wait?

@edsu To their credit, they didn't repeat Doctorow's bizarre claim that OSS browsers couldn't implement this

@edsu “ceded control of the "user agent" to a third-party” is either wrong or naive (how is this different from plugins? Or iOS?)

@edsu Yeah, I decided to stay home and work on OSS. Might also blog about this EFF disappointment ;)