Re: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

2007-08-02 Thread Stephen Deasey
devices. Your mom can do this. Cracking the DRM isn't necessary (although that will be done too). -Original Message- From: Stephen Deasey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 August 2007 23:28 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting On 8/1/07

Re: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

2007-08-01 Thread Stephen Deasey
On 8/1/07, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (EXTREMELY) minority OSes? I mean, come on, hands up who here on the list uses Linux as their primary OS. And me. And as such I just accept that if I want to watch any channel's output on-demand, there's a box in my living room that will

Re: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

2007-08-01 Thread Stephen Deasey
On 8/1/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With regards to worldwide takeup, I too thought the iPlayer was a UK-only thing, but I've heard rumblings about it becoming a paid-for service outside our borders in the future (I know of no ETA though). Don't know as to the authenticity

Re: [backstage] www.FreeTheBBC.info

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Deasey
On 6/15/07, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The licence fee could be one such business model. But the argument is about the balance between investing in linear vs making the most of on demand. It isn't, because the two are not mutually exclusive. The argument that you can't put

Re: [backstage] www.FreeTheBBC.info

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Deasey
On 6/15/07, Ian Betteridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To reiterate: the BBC cannot do free, un-DRM'd downloads unless either it pays them a huge sack of money or people like you and I demonstrate to them that no-DRM doesn't equal no money. The BBC has no magic wand it can wave to make no-DRM

Re: [backstage] www.FreeTheBBC.info

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Deasey
On 6/15/07, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Crossland wrote: The BBC's sack of money contains 3 billion pounds, which is a of sum of money which can make a lot of things happen. It does make lots of things happen. TV, Radio, internet, innforming, educating and entertaining the

Re: [backstage] DRM does not work... what next?

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Deasey
On 6/15/07, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still don't see how having DRM'd content free (of charge) over the internet from the BBC is worse than having no content from the BBC over the internet. It's not worse, but it's not much better. The BBC charter is not to do a little

Re: [backstage] DRM does not work... what next?

2007-06-14 Thread Stephen Deasey
On 6/14/07, Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking about products and services like this for a while, and want to ponder this question to the backstage community... We've been talking about how DRM doesn't work, etc in other posts. Well lets just say for this thread that DRM