On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:50 +0100, David Greaves wrote: > DRM, being technological, cannot turn a blind eye to the law. The law > is supposed to be a bit fuzzy.
DRM doesn't even cope with the clear-cut cases without screwing the consumer over, let alone the 'fuzz'. My partner is a high school teacher, and is therefore covered by the ERA licensing scheme¹ -- effectively she's allowed to record BBC (and other) content and use it for educational purposes without many restrictions at all. >From DVB this is nice and easy -- I stream MPEG to a file and she can do what she likes with it. (Well, I then do what she tells me she'd like.) Does the misguided iPlayer DRM scheme allow this? I'm not on the trial (perhaps my Linux/PowerPC hosts weren't considered suitable?) but I strongly suspect not. -- dwmw2 ¹ http://www.era.org.uk/about_era.html - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
