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BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak

Posted by kdawson on from the kick-their-dog-while-you're-at-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The future of iPlayer, the BBC's new online on-demand system for delivering content, is continuing to look bleaker. With ISPs threatening to throttle the content delivered through the iPlayer, consumers petitioning the UK government and the BBC to drop the DRM and Microsoft-only technology, and threatened legal action from the OSC, the last thing the BBC wanted to see today was street protests at their office and at the BBC Media Complex accompanied by a report issued by DefectiveByDesign about their association with Microsoft."

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  1. The real issue is.. by beldraen · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Wow. BBC is having street protests? And, this is over a media player? The U.S. invades Iraq on dubious grounds, without warrant wiretaps its people, and suspends the constitution, and what does the people of the United.. OOOOohhhh.. MSNBC says Brittany is being a bad mother and Kevin is being a good guy;although, it may be a shame just to get more money from her. Back in a few minutes.

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  2. There is no uproar by Chris_Jefferson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I live in the UK. Quite a lot of my relatives and friends know about iPlayer. None of them know of this "uproar". DefectiveByDesign's website looks cheap and tacky, and they seem to be a mostly US group. The BBC has said multiple times that they intend to support other OSes in time. The main reason they aren't is a lack of DRM on those other platforms.

    Non-UK groups, like the FSF, saying "Give us free unprotected content" is pointless. Many people in the UK want the DRM, so the BBC can make money selling their programs abroad.

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  3. Re:jesus by startling · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You utter, utter, complete and utter pillock. You unthinking twat. Are you so dim that you cannot see the wider implications of this issue? Believe me, I loathe spelling and grammar lamers as much as anyone but, in your case, since you're so obviously a fuckwit who pretends to be a writer by boasting about being published on what appear to be sockpuppet sites, I'll make an exception. Why do you 'seeth' about people who are rightly pointing out that the BBC should, at the very least, be seen to be independent rather than giving the convicted monopolist company, Microsoft, an unfair commercial advantage?