Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] EFF: Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

2008-03-01 Thread simon
Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that with the introduction of DRM restrictions in version 9 of its Flash Player and version 3 of its Flash Media Server software That article is as predictable as it is ill-informed. In with the head-stomping first, worry

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-03-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29/02/2008, Nick Reynolds-FMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: people don't have a moral obligation to share with other if they don't want to Sure, but thats different to agreeing not to share with anyone at all, indiscriminately, because what happens after making that agreement when you do want

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-03-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29/02/2008, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course the BBC has a duty to educate. The use of proprietary protocols/formats is a direct contradiction to this duty. How can we educate people when we can not even tell them how things work. I can see where your coming from in

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-03-01 Thread Andy Leighton
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:30:35PM +, Dave Crossland wrote: On 29/02/2008, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course the BBC has a duty to educate. The use of proprietary protocols/formats is a direct contradiction to this duty. How can we educate people when we can not even

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] EFF: Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

2008-03-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29/02/2008, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RTMP. This isn't DRM as the files inside the protocol are the same video formats that would be streamed over the web. DRM tends to be applied to the files directly. That's what is new and vicious about Adobe's Flash Media Server. You

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] EFF: Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

2008-03-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 01/03/2008, simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I make stuff people use. I don't sit around waiting for other folks to make stuff so I can tell them why they're wrong to make it that way and this kind of grandstanding drives me nuts When other folk avoid the ethical aspects of their profession

Re: [backstage] Freesat info for open source projects

2008-03-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11/02/2008, David Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Specifically, I wrote and maintain the MHEG engine that is used in MythTV. Awesome work - thank you! :-) -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit