On 6/26/07, Matthew Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David Woodhouse wrote:
> I don't think it's particularly off-topic at all. We're talking about a
> technical measure which gratuitously prevents the kind of development
> and collaboration which I thought this list was supposed to promote and
> encourage.
This is a "discussion list for anyone keen to build interesting new
prototypes or proofs of concept with BBC content." where BBC content would
presumably be that supplied by the BBC under BBC Backstage, ie. at
<http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data>. I don't think never-ending arguments
about DRM are in the spirit - at least, I don't think anyone has mentioned a
prototype or proof of concept they'd be able to do if iPlayer didn't have
DRM (and of course, you'd also have to be given the right to do whatever the
prototype or proof of concept was, which I doubt the BBC would easily be
able to arrange).
As has already been said, there is nothing stopping anyone taking a DVB
stream and doing what they like with it (in accordance with the law, of
course). Unless iPlayer is magically going to interfere with my Freeview
signal somehow? :-)
Indeed. If you're that desperate for digital DRM-free content, stick
a Digital TV card into your PC and record from that. Don't forget
that the iPlayer is simply an extra way to deliver content, and
whether it's DRM'd or not, platform specific or not, it still
increases the number of people able to watch BBC programmes - just not
as much or as quickly as the zealots here would like. It's
*increasing* choice - especially if, like me, you live in an area
where Freeview signal strengths are poor.
As I've said before, it appears that people ranting about the evils of
the iPlayer have little interest in the actual content, and more in
using every thread on here as an excuse to get their own little
soapbox out and start shouting about their bugbear of choice.
Rich.
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