On 06/15/2010 03:21 PM, Andrew Bowden wrote:
We can argue around this one as much as we want but I'm afraid there's one
simple truth. Most people don't care one bit and just want to watch their
programme.
They do. And they won't take long to work out that technology, content
and services
On 06/15/2010 02:08 PM, Andrew Bowden wrote:
If the alternative was this system did not exist and rights holders told
broadcasters (for this is not just a BBC issue) that the broadcaster
could not broadcast their content in HD on the Freeview platform...
They threatened something like this
On 06/15/2010 10:11 PM, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote:
People won't miss something
they never knew they had in the first place especially if they are able
to do all the things they can now, which it appears they will be.
They'll find out soon enough, they're not, and it doesn't.
This is a problem.
On 01/03/10 10:09, Paul Rissen wrote:
Rights are important, and should be respected - but shouldn't be used as a
weapon to scare off questions/solutions...
And we've known that we need to tackle rights on new work (the rats nest
of pre-digital rights would probably require legislation to
On 01/03/10 11:22, Ian Forrester wrote:
Your right about the lawyers. As default they suggest you would be a mug to
give away any part of the rights.
In my experience there are very, very few lawyers who can help work
through more creative models. I've even been surprised by some of the
On 28/01/10 08:03, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Underwhelming. It's a big iPhone. It's named after the Star Trek PADD.
Might be good it if ran an operating system and had a keyboard.
As Mo points out it does. It can run iPhone apps so if it's not running
the iPhone OS it's running another OSX
On 28/01/10 09:56, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Sorry, I didn't realise we were back in the 1970s where the software that
runs on the iPhone can be called an operating system.
It's a UNIX. It's a UNIX broken to remove your freedom, but it's still a
multi-tasking* memory-protected kernel-based
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/01/freeview_hd_content_manag
ement.html
Overall, we believe the proposed system takes a highly pragmatic approach
to content management
Why do people always use pragmatic as a synonym for complicit?
Indeed, the proposed Freeview HD content
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:33:18 +, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
Exactly the same problem exists with Creative Commons NC licenses -
there isn't a solid definition of what non-commercial actually
means. The CC actually ran a consultation on it, and were going to
do... something, at
On 07/12/09 17:54, Graeme Mulvaney wrote:
Why should facebook need a panic button for children ?
It's a *moral panic* button.
It will be a very handy tool for cyberbullies to use against their victims.
- Rob.
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DRM is law, not code.
(As code it's useless, an encryption system where you give the attacker the
key...)
- rob.
On Oct 6, 2009 4:14 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, lots of FLOSS code produces supersecure encryption; GnuPG for
example.
Digital Restrictions Management of
On 06/10/09 19:07, David Tomlinson wrote:
Frank Wales wrote:
Do you mean the DMCA? Isn't that American? And what is a unilaterally
imposed licence, when it's at home? How can someone force me to accept
their permission to do something?
I can not remember the relevant European
On 06/10/09 20:05, Brian Butterworth wrote:
And let's not forget that EU Legislation has to be enacted by the
UK Parliament.
Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_and_Related_Rights_Regulations_2003#Technical_measures
And while I'm at it -
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 19:53, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.ukwrote:
How would the cause of audiences be served if the BBC refused to deal
with content vendors and as a result audiences could not access that
content?
History shows that this won't happen.
And this time the BBC is
On 02/10/09 19:17, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/10/freeview_hd_copy_protecti
on_a.html
However our focus is not to champion causes - it's meeting our public
service remit which means serving our many audiences as best, as fairly,
and as openly as we can.
On 02/10/09 19:17, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote:
People on this list may be interested in this latest blog post:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/10/freeview_hd_copy_protecti
on_a.html
The first commenter is far more worth reading than the original post -
On 30/09/09 17:37, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
If anything the open source community will be the first to find a workaround.
It will be both impractical and illegal to do so. From the article -
DTLA requires that all devices be made to resist end-user
modification. That is, DTLA devices can't use
It's a great idea, but beware the opinions of unions stung in the past by
attempted exploits on the publicity clause.
The materials would have to be by-sa to be used in wikipedia (which is
good). Charging for the service would therefore guarantee only timeliness,
not exclusivity.
On Jul 28, 2009
2009/6/18 Phil Lewis backst...@linuxcentre.net
The same rights holders probably didn't like VCRs either - or digital
terrestrial tv broadcasting.
They didn't. They also didn't like cable TV, MP3 and just about any other
cash cow you can mention. You have to force them to get rich each time.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
2009/6/16 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
The Final Digital Britain Report
http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/6216.aspx
So what do people think? Time to leave the country or dig a hole and
stick our
2009/6/17 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk
I got to say I'm also with ukfsn.org and not really had any major problems
Thanks guys.
I'll take a look.
- Rob.
European Newspapers Find Creative Ways to Thrive in the Internet Age
PARIS — As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted
this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the
biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in its
62-year history.
Dave Crossland wrote:
2009/3/29 James Ockenden james.ocken...@gmail.com:
I think this is a false dilemma. Guys in my office have phones with
8MP cameras. My 18-month old phone has a 5MP camera. I suspect a good
lens and skill with photoshop is vastly more important than the
photographer being
Fearghas McKay wrote:
On 29 Mar 2009, at 19:48, Dave Crossland wrote:
Photography did in portrait painters. Same story, different century.
It did ?
There really are no portrait painters left?
I think the effect of photography was that portraiture as a market
increased, the affluent
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
Seeing is believing but this sounds very encouraging...
I do wonder if more could be done to help them though.
Large quantities of cash would be good. ;-)
- Rob.
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
A key characteristic of a newspaper is that you can fold it up.
Foldable or rollable screens may yet arrive in the next few years, I
vaguely recall Samsung and Sony showing proof-of-concept and
prototypes the last year.
If
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
My hope with the change is that we'll get an answer to the questions
MediaLens raise about the integrity of the profession.
My hope is that with the change MediaLens will find something better to do. ;-P
- Rob.
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Kevin Charman-Anderson wrote:
But Dave, taking a swing from the barricades at the profiteering
publishers sounds lovely but it comes close to ignoring the pain and
economic dislocation that journalists are going through at the moment.
We're not the only ones hurting in this recession, but
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Steve Jolly st...@jollys.org wrote:
Not sure I'm convinced - all operating systems have their vulnerabilities;
All machines have their *theoretical* vulnerabilities. Only Windows
has vast botnets built on them, or any effective malware threats
exploiting them in
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Peter Bowyer pe...@bowyer.org wrote:
2009/3/13 Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Steve Jolly st...@jollys.org wrote:
Not sure I'm convinced - all operating systems have their vulnerabilities;
All machines have their *theoretical
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Gordon McMullan
gordon.mcmul...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
It may not be *vast* but here's a report of a Mac OS X Trojan enrolling a
Mac into a DDoS attack http://notahat.com/posts/28 it seems that he was
originally infected by running a compromised installer infected
Dave Crossland wrote:
Some of them have no pensions and need this money, he said.
A large enough cut of zero must be worth *something*.
- Rob.
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In fact technically changing all copyright durations to be 1 year
would also harmonise everything.=20
Berne means copyrights have to be at least 50 years.
There is no logical reason why you
can only harmonise upwards and not downwards.
Governments don't want to strip people of their
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Alun Rowe alun.r...@pentangle.co.uk wrote:
//personal rant coming up...
For any open source software (Linux for example) to really work on the
network en mass we need to about user experience. Currently I've yet to see
an attractive/user friendly piece of
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk
Transforming a Windows school to an Ubuntu school is nigh on impossible to
achieve unless you provide a year's warning, gradually phase out use of all
Windows-only software over the course of the year, implement the
Ian Forrester wrote:
The really cool kids are on both right?
I refer the honourable gentleman to the smiley I appended at the
conclusion of my previous statement. ;-) I think Twitter has the more
famous people on it.
Surely it's the same as when Radio presenters couldn't help but chat about
Who cares if
MS is de facto in the school setting if it serves its purpose?=20
Its purpose (as someone else pointed out quite eloquently) is to teach
kids. I don't know how well MS software teaches anything other than how
to use the previous version of MS software, a skill that at best
Duncan Barclay wrote:
I have to admit that I generally don't see the point of twitter.
You could have fitted that into a twitter message and reached a much
wider audience. ;-)
- Rob.
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Richard Lockwood wrote:
I allege that the advantages of switching to Free
Software *can* outweigh the costs (sic) of support, teaching, and third
party staff upgrading their skills to more open, flexible and studiable
systems. ;-)
I like the use of the word allege. Can you demonstrate it?
Dave Crossland wrote:
2009/2/2 Frank Wales fr...@limov.com:
Dave Crossland wrote:
A nice example of someone running a business, with streaming and
torrent downloads and verbatim commercial redistribution permitted:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/make-your-own-crash-course-dvds
Er, you sure?
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Michael Walsh
michael.wa...@digitalrightsmanifesto.com wrote:
If you have digital material you can release for remixing purpose - then I
would contend that along with distributing it via some channel or another,
you should also consider hosting the content on a
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
2009/1/21 Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org:
And ensuring that the results can be used by commercial organizations
(by not making it NC) would help defuse any competition concerns.
And boost Wikipedia et al :-)
Yes
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Licensing,
I think we'll use something like CC-BY-NC (although I totally understand the
arguments against NC, Dave) CC-BY-NC-SA is tempting due to the nature of the
content.
Could you explain the nature of the
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Gavin Johnson gavin.john...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Should you decide to get one it's gonna be a while before you say anything.
On 06/01/2009 13:22, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
http://ping.fm/GqIbk http://ping.fm/GqIbk
What can I say?
t
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Andy wrote:
To say AIR supports Linux is very misleading.
AIR undermines GNU/Linux, it doesn't support it. ;-) [also ducks]
- Rob.
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Aleem B wrote:
(why is it so surpising that microsoft would prefer
DRM-free content).
Their prior actions, corporate culture, general technological
strategies, partnerships and regulatory environment.
And you have stripped the emphasis of the original. There is no evidence
that MS *have
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Richard Lockwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Certainly. Dave is forever banging on about how if information can be
copied it *should* be copied and shared - not just free software, but
anything; music, films etc, regardless of the wishes of the original
creator
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Richard Lockwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see any confusion at all. It's simply a question of where
does Dave draw the line between you must share and copy this and
you must not share and copy this. He's previously given the very
strong impression
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Vladimir Harman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmmm...nice and positive news for the ubuntu friends, and me of course :)
thanks to canonical for spreading the word :) the plugin works with totem
only, or it works with other gnu/linux video applications?
My next
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Ian Forrester wrote:
I'm trying to get the guys behind this to do a full piece on backstage about
it.
That would be brilliant!
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proje.html
In the summer of 2007, freetards (me too), the OSC and others were
calling for the BBC to make iPlayer cross-platform
...
Cross-platform support has always been a source of grief
The BBC's insistence that this
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Phil Wilson wrote:
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!
My Linux box is PowerPC. But it is a great comfort to know that you
can run it.
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Ian Forrester wrote:
Facebook
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1. Given that your business is worth nothing without the trust of your
community, why have you just hired someone who worked for the former US
Attorney General who approved warrantless wiretapping, torture,
Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/7/18 Oeztunali, Sebnem (CT) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
...It will also let users buy a TV show or movie without actually
downloading the video file to the PC's hard drive...
This statement is either misguided or lying. :-)
Why should it be either? It's possible to buy
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Anyone else find it strange that Richard Stallman feels it is apparently
unjust for Microsoft and others to publish software that users are not
free to share and modify, but it is ok to publish an article which
readers are
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It uses CC-ND which only allows sharing with attribution, it does not
allow commercial reuse or you to 'alter, transform or build upon this
work'
ND does allow commercial use. NC-ND would prevent commercial use.
He
should
prevent misattribution of derivatives.
- Rob.
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stallman believes that works of opinion are different from pieces of
software. He is concerned that arbitrary modifications of a work
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was just following the CC link posted in the news article, it states no
commercial use. Has the wrong version been linked?
Yes, it looks like it. Is that an error from the author or the publisher?
Just so I know who to
fit to publish that commentary.
Sean.
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Rob Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stallman believes that works of opinion are different from pieces of
software. He is concerned that arbitrary modifications of a work
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Cool. Can I apply for his post please?
That depends. What work experience do you have at Microsoft?
- Rob.
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Tom Loosemore wrote:
I tell you, there's a big pot of money awaiting someone who develops a
trusted-enough tracker for usage of online video (a big recruited
online panel running background tracking software might even do...)
*cough* data protection *cough*. ;-)
- Rob.
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Tim Dobson wrote:
Media players don't all have a function which sends a unique ID to server.
Hash the file or check the first 256 bytes. Or check the filename or
url. Or the metadata. Tracking files doesn't require a clever system,
just an intrusive one.
- Rob.
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Tim Dobson wrote:
its a pity that Andrew Orlowski couldn't have written up a
unbiased version of the events,
He can't, he needs the clicks. El Reg's advertising-and-merchandise
business model model will fail unless he constantly gets attention by
arguing against it. ;-)
- Rob.
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Thomas Leitch wrote:
Wrong. It is locked.
Good luck if you lose your last front door key.
As another example, I can sell you a car and refuse to give you the keys
after you give me the money. If you hire a locksmith and drive off
anyway and I take you to court over this then my insistence
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