Re: [backstage] Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

2009-03-15 Thread Andy Halsall
On Sunday 15 March 2009 14:55:43 Dave Crossland wrote: > 2009/3/15 Kevin Anderson : > > As for Clay's piece, it's one of the best of a kind. I would say that > > much of the discussion here is confusing public funding with a business > > model. > > I think the phrase "business model" is colloquiall

Re: [backstage] Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

2009-03-15 Thread Andy Halsall
On Sunday 15 March 2009 07:45:27 Dan Brickley wrote: > On 15/3/09 02:32, Andy Halsall wrote: > >> I concur with his viewpoint that business models are being broken > >> faster than new ones can be invented. > > > > Business models and distribution methods, the de

Re: [backstage] Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

2009-03-14 Thread Andy Halsall
> I concur with his viewpoint that business models are being broken > faster than new ones can be invented. > Business models and distribution methods, the demand for high quality content however remains constant, as long as that doesn't change there will always be a need for journalists, writer

Re: [backstage] Linguistic discrimination?

2008-12-08 Thread Andy Halsall
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Re: [backstage] Linguistic discrimination?

2008-12-08 Thread Andy Halsall
On Monday 08 December 2008 11:42:24 Brian Butterworth wrote: > Interesting point of debate. > This logic says that it is possible only to have an opinion if you speak > the language of the country that you have a though about. No, the logic seems to be that requiring comments in a language that on

Re: [backstage] BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed

2008-04-09 Thread Andy Halsall
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 14:32:45 Andy wrote: > Mr I Forrester wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/bbc_highfield_isp_threat/ > > The saga continues courtesy of the Reg. > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/bbc_tiscali_iplayer/ > (BBC vs ISPs: Bandwidth row escalates as Tiscali

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-13 Thread Andy Halsall
On Thursday 13 March 2008 16:03:26 Thomas Leitch wrote: > > Fair enough. What I still find rather confusing is that, > > short of using whatever DRM capabilities the iPhone has, they > > will still be streaming DRM free content to a single > > platform, something that is likely to be circumventabl

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-13 Thread Andy Halsall
On Thursday 13 March 2008 15:44:56 Phil Wilson wrote: > > --- We've released a fix to prevent unrestricted downloading of streamed > > TV programmes on BBC iPlayer. Like other broadcasters, the security of > > rights-protected content online is an issue we take very seriously. It's > > an ongoing

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-13 Thread Andy Halsall
On Thursday 13 March 2008 13:55:50 Iain Wallace wrote: > ... User Agent ... cookies. ... Wireshark, ... "BBC-UID" cookie ... large > hex number ... Quicktime version (including OS identifier). ... MP4 URL ... > cookie contains some kind of hash ... client data ... agent sends over. ... > upload a

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-13 Thread Andy Halsall
OK, so the BBC has decided to use something more involved than a simple user agent check to determine whether it will serve up standards compliant and non DRM encumbered media to a client. Fair enough. What I still find rather confusing is that, short of using whatever DRM capabilities the i

Re: [backstage] Guardian article about iPhone iPlayer

2008-03-13 Thread Andy Halsall
On Thursday 13 March 2008 12:25:38 Steve Jolly wrote: > Thought that people might find this interesting: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/13/digitalvideo.television > > S > And the BBC reply: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7293988.stm signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Andy Halsall
> Till then, I would suggest you don't do anything your mother wouldn't be > happy about. I take it that isn't legal advice... :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Andy Halsall
On Monday 10 March 2008 08:55:46 Mr I Forrester wrote: > I will attempt to get some answers to your questions, although I think > the iphone service is only a beta service at the moment? > Ian, I get the impresion some of them, or at least those related to future support for other mobile platfor

[backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-09 Thread Andy Halsall
ed parties with regard to the issues I have raised (apologies if they have already been addressed elsewhere). I'd also like to point out that this (rather larger than intended) commentary is not intended as a criticism of the BBC in general, the BBC provides me with a large amount of my dail

Re: [backstage] Business Reasons To Support Gnash

2008-03-05 Thread Andy Halsall
Windows PC's. The BBC would do well to provide a platform agnostic, well documented and standardised solution to media distribution. > I think that *that* is the reason that the BBC have a duty to > counterbalance their support for Adobe/Flash with support for more open > alter

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-04 Thread Andy Halsall
On Monday 03 March 2008 14:51:33 Ian Forrester wrote: > Hi All, > > We're involved in abilitynet's one day conference - > www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessibility2 > This may actually be quite interesting, its certainly a topic that could do with a little more publicity and support. (I should say its