On 19-Mar-2010, at 21:05, Alex Cockell wrote: > Hi folks, > > Umm - how many of you are following this debate? > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/03/bbc_iplayer_content_protection.html
*waves* > Could it be said that by locking it all down to only BBC-released > clients, they could be hurting the market in that they're inadvertently > tying end-users, hardware vendors etc to Adobe? Yes. Plus, if on-demand is to be as important as everybody thinks, then the same neutrality policies must surely apply to it as does to OTA. Oddly enough, the BBC Trust actually said as much way back when, but the whole shift from Windows Media to Flash blindsided them for a while. > Is it possible to bring pressure to bear? Hopefully. My (PDF) response to the recently-closed BBC Trust on-demand review: http://files.me.com/mo.mcroberts/pct7em Cheers, M. - 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]/
