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BBC Trust to Meet With OSC Over iPlayer

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-to-suggestions dept.

Virgil Tibbs writes "With the Launch of the BBC's iPlayer imminent, the BBC trust has agreed to hear the Open Source Consortium's concerns regarding the BBC iPlayer's tie in with Microsoft's software. The move by the BBC to use Windows Media DRM & their apparent lack of commitment towards other platforms has caused outrage in many circles and prompted several online petitions."

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  1. Uh-oh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't Cowboyneal mean to post this on slashdot.co.uk?

  2. Re:Dupe! by RDW · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well this just illustrates the danger of distributing DRM-free media! With properly enforced Rights Management, it would be impossible for stories to be duplicated in this way without authorisation!

    On a related note, there seems to be some sort of hardware crack for obtaining unencrypted BBC media streams. Someone calling himself 'freeview' has hacked together a circumvention device (commonly called a 'freeview box', possibly a reference to the old phone phreak 'coloured boxes') that gives 24/7 access to DRM-free BBC digital content. These devices are quite widely available (try ebay.co.uk, or google for 'argos') but up to now have escaped the attention of the BBC Trust, so be careful who you tell...