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> And all of this should justify damaging the w3c reputation forever, what are they thinking?!

Thinking isn't required to accept your paycheck -- in fact damaging the reputation of the W3C is their goal. There are fewer ways to fragment the standards of the internet better than undermining the integrity of the dominant standards committee by infiltrating it and proposing crap to be standardized.

Since the MPAA and her malicious allies are standing members then their propositions are considered seriously as a matter of policy, regardless of the stated goals and their actual effect.

Preventing piracy is at the bottom of a very long list of power that DRM provides, and maintaining control over your content distribution networks is at the top. The two have some overlap, but it's extremely limited (pirates don't pay, but content distributors do, so they will squeeze the distributors as much as they can).