On 21/11/2007, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20/11/2007, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That is kind of the figures I was expecting. Just to be clear here, > > the way I see it is that if the BBC stands up and says we believe in > > "libre" not "gratis", so we don't want anything to do with software > > or codecs that involve patents, pretty much at least 80%+ of the > > people who own portable music players in the UK are going to turn > > around and say "Chuffing hell, lads, why doesn't that work on my > > machine? I mean, I *paid* for all this stuff to be made by the BBC. > > Who are you to tell me which machines I should have to buy". > > I'm not suggesting that the BBC have the moral courage to take a stand > on this issue like that; merely that they should not contribute to the > problem by only using proprietary or patent-encumbered formats. > > > I mean, isn't that the argument for the BBC making the iPlayer work in > > Linux - because a market is there and so the BBC should support it in > > the interest of universal access? > > Universal access is the ideal, but the iPlayer attacks that ideal > because it is proprietary and DRM. So if the BBC makes the current > iPlayer work in GNU/Linux in the interest of universal access, that > will be tragic. Promoting proprietary software and inflicting DRM on > people is unethical. > > If the BBC doesn't make its iPlayer work on GNU/Linux, but just makes > it with DRMless patentless media formats (like the one invented at the > BBC, perhaps?) and documents its protocols, that would be enough - > because the free software community would write a (probably > crossplatform) iPlayer-like program from that, itself, without needing > any license-fee money spent. > > > Or, they could just make 120+ radio programmes available free to > > download, for nothing, for people to keep for as long as they like, > > and re-encode into any format they want.... > > Reencoding them with.... patent encumbered software. Mmm.
And, more the point, you will get all the anti aliasing artifacts if you don't encode from the original PCM WAV.. -- > Regards, > Dave > - > 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]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
