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BBC Threatened Over iPlayer Format

Posted by kdawson on from the and-watch-out-for-apple-with-that-name dept.

greengrass sends us to coverage in The Register of the Open Source Consortium's threatened anti-trust challenge against the BBC over its use of Windows Media format in its on-demand service, iPlayer. From the article: "The OSC will raise a formal complaint with UK broadcast and telecoms watchdog Ofcom next week, and has vowed to take its accusations to the European Competition Commission if domestic regulators do not act. The OSC compared the situation to the European Commission's prosecution of Microsoft over its bundling of Windows Media Player with Windows."

3 of 269 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Other ways of handling it... by SkunkPussy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem is that I pay for the content via my TV licence, and I don't really like the idea of paying for a delivery method that is inaccessible to me.

    (ahem posted from IE6 in windows - at work, honest!)

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    SURELY NOT!!!!!
  2. Glad to see this. by anubi · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Governments, funded by the PUBLIC should put their stuff in PUBLIC format.

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    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]

  3. Needs to go further. by twitter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Governments, funded by the PUBLIC should put their stuff in PUBLIC format.

    and when software patents get in the way, the PUBLIC should demand that law serve the PUBLIC interest. Software patents are bogus and they are the only reason there's a format problem in the first place.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.