{"id":6293,"date":"2017-09-20T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2017-09-20T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:29:00","slug":"with-the-world-wide-web-consortium-captured-by-the-copyright-industry-who-will-step-up-to-lead-web-development-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/with-the-world-wide-web-consortium-captured-by-the-copyright-industry-who-will-step-up-to-lead-web-development-next\/","title":{"rendered":"With the World Wide Web Consortium captured by the copyright industry, who will step up to lead web development next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which used to develop standards for the Web, has been captured by the copyright industry. In a doubly controversial vote, the W3C decided that media companies and not the user should be in control, ending their longstanding commitment to openness and the Internet\u2019s core values. The open question is what new body web developers will choose to follow for future generations of standards.<\/p>\n

This week, the World Wide Web Consortium<\/a> (W3C) formally adopted<\/a> Digital Restriction Measures (DRM) as part of the Web, thereby ending a policy of \u201cthe user is in control of their experience\u201d and replacing it with \u201cthe copyright industry is in control\u201d. The standard in question is called EME \u2014 Encrypted Media Extensions<\/em> \u2014 and was pushed by all the pre-internet giants with vested pre-internet interests and Netflix.<\/p>\n

Why is this bad? For all the reasons.<\/p>\n

The W3C is \u2014 was \u2014 the body that defined standards for the World Wide Web, which browser developers implemented in turn into web browsers like Firefox, Chromium, Opera, and Safari. Having a third party publish the standards meant that no one browser team is in charge of standards development at the same time as they are making a browser, thereby encouraging interoperability between different browsers.<\/p>\n

Now, having Digital Restriction Measures (DRM) as part of the Web means a number of very bad things, both principal, technical, and legal. First and foremost, on the principle<\/em> level, the control of the experience has always been with the user. You don\u2019t like a particular website\u2019s color scheme? Turn it off. You don\u2019t like ads? Turn them off. You\u2019re blind? Have the page read out loud to you instead of displayed. The page scripts are annoying? Disable their scripts. The notion that the information is served, complete with a suggested layout, but with yourself<\/em> as final arbiter as to how the website is allowed to show on your<\/em> screen, has always been front row center to the development of the Web. Until this week, that is.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to realize that this encryption is not to the benefit of the user<\/em>, like https is, but to the benefit of the copyright industry<\/em>. In Cory Doctorow\u2019s words, when somebody gives you a locked piece of data without the key, that lock is never there for your<\/em> benefit.<\/p>\n

From a technical<\/em> perspective, this means that attacks delivered over the web \u2014 which are most of them today \u2014 can now be delivered in a standardized encrypted format, which means virus and malware checkers can\u2019t intercept and prevent infection the way they can today.<\/p>\n

From a legal<\/em> perspective, it\u2019s even worse, because it\u2019s now illegal to research and prevent<\/em> such attacks that are delivered over a channel protected by Digital Restriction Measures (DRM) in some of the biggest economies, like the United States and Europe. All other related research that seeks to circumvent the copyright industry\u2019s control to the benefit of the user is also illegal, like providing accessibility to blind people (no, the standards don\u2019t<\/a> require it).<\/p>\n

So why all this fuss just for a delivery channel of movies, in practice, which everybody gets from their favorite \u201cunofficial sources\u201d anyway?<\/p>\n

Because there\u2019s nothing limiting this delivery channel to just a movie. In theory, the entire web experience could be encrypted using new layers of technology. Yes, that includes mandatory advertising. Mandatory. Advertising. Yes, on your<\/em> screen. The principal shift here, to put the media companies in control instead of the user, is the most important one with far-reaching ramifications.<\/p>\n

When the RIAA calls a decision \u201ca victory for common sense\u201d, you know you\u2019ve got it exactly wrong<\/strong>, W3C. \u2014 John Sullivan, FSF<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This happened in a doubly controversial vote. Doubly because first, up until today, standards were never<\/em> decided by vote, but by consensus<\/a>, a threshold quite far above simple majority; and second, the vote passed by a mere 58%.<\/p>\n

To quote John Sullivan, director of the Free Software Foundation, who tweeted<\/a> at the W3C: \u201cWhen the RIAA calls a decision \u2018a victory for common sense\u2019, you know you\u2019ve got it exactly wrong<\/em>, W3C.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a textbook example of Regulatory Capture,<\/em> this which just happened. The W3C was captured by the copyright industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regulatory Capture is a term<\/a> describing a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. When regulatory capture occurs, the interests of firms or political groups are prioritized over the interests of the public, leading to a net loss to society as a whole. Government agencies suffering regulatory capture are called \u201ccaptured agencies\u201d. (Quote from Wikipedia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Seeing this regulatory capture firsthand, taking place against its formal objections, the Electronic Frontier Foundation immediately resigned<\/a> from the World Wide Web Consortium.<\/p>\n

The concept of regulatory capture is not an easy nut to crack. During the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, the Founding Fathers complained about this problem, which they called factions<\/em>, and discussed how they could prevent the capture of regulatory bodies by those who would be regulated by it. In the end, it was one of the problems the Founding Fathers didn\u2019t<\/em> solve in creating the United States of America, and so it remains unsolved.<\/p>\n

Except maybe not in this case, because the W3C has no formal<\/em> authority. Its recommendations are \u2014 were \u2014 followed only based on trust in having done the right thing up until this week. It was a leader in the truest sense; somebody who others voluntarily choose to take advice from. The W3C was a standards body, but nobody is coerced<\/em> into following their standards.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the field is now open for a new<\/em> publisher of web standards, one that doesn\u2019t bend the knee to the copyright industry, and more importantly, a standards body that continues to put the user in control of their own computer and experience.<\/p>\n

For once the developers see where the path goes when you put the copyright industry in charge<\/a> of the experience, they will balk at that and do something else.<\/p>\n

Failing that, there\u2019s the next level of safety valve, the users themselves, which are likely to reject such an experience and lack of control altogether \u2014 just remember how Adblock started out as a niche plugin for Firefox, then gradually spread to a plugin for all browsers, and are now working its way into the mainline browser distributions. When many enough users say that they\u2019ve had enough of something, that also counts for something.<\/p>\n

In any case, the field is now open for somebody to step up to the plate and take charge of the future of web standards, with users front row center where they belong. The EFF themselves, perhaps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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