BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak

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."

Comments

To all the protestors:

[thatskinnyguy]

If you don't like it, stop watching the BBC and watch something else that has DRM free (as in beer) content on their website. Nobody is forcing anyone to watch content produced by the BBC. They do have some good programming. I'm kinda disappointed in them but I'm not about to get out the torch and pitchfork over it.

This is absurd. The world needs perspective.

[Orig_Club_Soda]

I realize everyone hates DRM - prosting in the street!? Over previously aired TV!!!??? Don't Briton's have something better to do - like going to work!?

People need to grow up. You can't have everything for free - or the way you want. And PLEASE go protest something important like excessive waiting lines for tax funded health care.

jesus

[veeoh]

I wish the anally retentive pricks that are threatening to spoil the iplayer get told to get to their rooms, or at least get out and meet girls.

God it makes me seeth.

How many people at the street protest?

[spectecjr]

Looking at the photos.. all of 15 people?

Seriously... who cares?

Feared uproar did not occur

[vorlich]

I am a UK citizen and the last time I counted, I had approximately 72 cousins (Pre-war families were large and post war families weren't much smaller) all of my cousins and their respective parents (my aunts and uncles) have been emailing me to declare their utter outrage at this decision of the BBC.
My children have emailed me, my grandchildren have emailed. My extensive set of nieces and nephews including the German side of my family who have only ever heard of the BBC World Service, have emailed me.
Friends and acquaintances have been emailing me and even a guy I met in the pub in 1994 who lived in the bottle bank with his dog, in Irvine Place emailed me. An elderly woman I once shared a rather amusing conversation about the British Weather, while waiting on the number 55 bus emailed me. All two thirds of my old High School,(approx 2000 people - including cousins) whom I knew well enough to greet by name emailed me. The 162 members of my University computer science course emailed me. The entire fan base of New Youth who are very familiar with me, as the manager who sold them out to the man, emailed me.
All the people who organised the street party for the Royal Wedding in 1981 in my old street, emailed me, they were outraged too.

Not.

I guess they must have all missed it?

Bummer!