On 14/03/2008, Matthew Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Section 296ZA is about circumvention of technological measures, and uses the > phrase "effective technological measures", where "technological measures" > are any technology, device or component which is designed, in the normal > course of its operation, to protect a copyright work other than a computer > program; and Such measures are "effective" if the use of the work is > controlled by the copyright owner through - (a) an access control or > protection process such as encryption, scrambling or other transformation of > the work, or (b) a copy control mechanism, which achieves the intended > protection. > > User agent sniffing is not, IMNALO an "effective technological measure" by > that definition.
I believe it is "a copy control mechanism, which achieves the intended protection." My point is that BBC is more than capable of going all Adobe on us if it so choses. (Adobe had a Russian programmer jailed under the DRM law when he presented at a conference in Las Vegas in 2001.) The BBC ought to make an "Backstage iPlayer Terms of Service" style agreement, as it does with existing Backstage API and the BBC Radio podcasts, that gives developers a clear signal from policy makers like Highfield that innovating around the iPlayer is safe. Instead we have a bit of chatter about "in an ideal world" and the BBC telling newspapers it thinks we are a threat that it "takes very seriously." :-( -- Regards, Dave Personal opinion only! - 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]/
