Forget management, I fear you'll find that the BBC Trust's permission to offer 7 days catchup TV was predicated on using DRM.
Various parts of its non-DRM on demand radio proposals (book readings, classical music) failed the Public Value Test due to the BBC Trust's fears over the negative market impact of non-DRM downloads. > Though option 2 seems, to me at least, to clearly be in the license-payer's > (and > our) interest - and a technically superior option - it's certainly a much > higher-risk strategy from Ashley's perspective, and, politically, would most > likely be a very hard sell to BBC management. > > At what point does option 1 become untenable? > > Cheers, > David > -- > David McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Department of Computing, Imperial College, London > > > - 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]/
