Indeed I had been under the impression there was progress when Ashley Highfield told me last November that long-term, DRM should be open source or better yet, work should be done with rights holders to do away with DRM.
In my conversations with people from PACT I got the distinct impression that they are not at all militant about DRM. What they are deeply concerned with are the livelihoods of content creators and maintaining a resemblance to the status quo where more popular content is remunerated in proportion. The BBC is perhaps uniquely qualified to sit down with PACT and the others and hammer out deals which are fair to both the licence fee payer and the creator. DRM is inherently unfair to the licence fee payer, in many cases infringing on users' rights; it is difficult and expensive to implement on common platforms, and even more so on all the others; and is easily defeated by the technically inclined while monstrously frustrating to everybody else. Years ago, the BBC convinced RealNetworks to issue a special version of their player. Adobe has just implemented Speex in Flash 10, it seems to me the BBC could also play a part in getting a free video codec into Flash which to my mind would certainly be a positive step. Isn't there anyone at the BBC willing to take that leadership role? Sean. On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Tim Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Crossland wrote: >> >> 2008/10/15 Phil Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> Yes, the fact that this will run on all the Linux PCs in >>> both my houseand office is a shockingly pro-Microsoft >>> move and must be stopped! >> >> The fact that this will run only with proprietary software is >> continuing the BBC's discriminatory policy against software freedom, >> and it must be stopped. > > I wonder how one can best persuade the relevant people at the BBC to lay > out, adopt and embrace a forward thinking strategy to allow end users to > access any and all of their services using only free software... > > Ideas welcome > > Tim > > -- > www.tdobson.net > ---- > If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us > still has one object. > If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now > has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw > - > 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
