This is all my personal point of view. "offer very little on demand, or use DRM" - Tom L, the other week.
Would you prefer DRMed content on Linux, or just the current video offerings? "I'd like all of it in a 'free' format right now please" isn't possible, at least not right now. Yes, IMO all DRM will never achieve its goal of complete rights management - its probably impossible. I think we all agree there. The point is that it's control is 'good enough' for the people who own the content. That isn't pointless. Lets also remember that iPlayer is version 1.0 - the first stab. Let let it evolve and see where it goes. What with the industry and consumer's demands changing so fast do you really think version 2 (or for that matter 3, 4 etc) will look/feel/run anything like the first version? J ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 01 February 2007 11:45 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Trust "reaches Provisional Conclusions on BBC on-demand proposals" Any DRM system will be hacked regardless of platform. GNU/Linux is no exception. Does that make any "Linux DRM" potentially any less secure than a Windows version? I doubt it myself. I totally agree, however I think spending money developing DRM is a waste of licence payers money because, as we seem to agree, it will be defeated and thus ultimately pointless.
