"Unfortunately, the Beeb seems poised to renege on its most important
promise -- putting its entire archive online, without DRM, for the
British public to download and remix. Instead, they're chasing crappy
Windows DRM non-solutions that fail to decriminalize Britain's creative
remixers, that forces law-abiding Brits to use American software to see
British TV, and that abolishes the idea that you should be able to
record an Internet TV program the way you would record a TV program with
your VCR.
The Beeb needs to spend less time sucking up to Microsoft and making
vague announcements about upcoming "partnerships" and more time doing
what it does best: taking the risks that the private sector is too
scared to take on its own."
- Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/05/bbc_taking_risks_the.html
Does anyone have any pitchforks and torches?
- Rob.
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