The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resigned from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) after the latter announced it was accepting the published Encrypted Media Extensions(EME) as a Web standard. W3C is the industry body that oversees development of HTML and related Web standards. EME provides a standard interface for DRM protection of media delivered through the browser. EME is not itself a DRM scheme; rather, it defines how Web content can work with third-party Content Decryption Modules (CDMs) that handle the proprietary decryption and rights-management portion. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resigned from the World Wide Web Consortium after the latter announced it was accepting the published Encrypted Media Extensions as a Web standard.
— source itwire.com, arstechnica.com 2017-09-21