BBC Brings DRM-Free Content To Linux Users

eldavojohn writes "The BBC is planning to release some of its programmes to users of GNU & Linux. You won't see Doctor Who or Dragons' Den on there anytime soon, but they have been working with Canonical & Collabora on getting this out there for Totem users. The developer blog mentions that the sheer number of options in the open source world actually makes this difficult to accomplish."

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Number of options available?

[Skapare]

This is a bogus issue. Just choose a STANDARD FORMAT that is openly documented and unencumbered by patents (such as OGG with Vorbis and Theora). Since this is a non-DRM project, this will work. Then let the application developers make sure their products work right.

This whole idea of standards is so that data can be produced by any of a wide range of programs, and then accepted by any of a wide range or programs. Instead of targeting their product to a specific player, they need to target it to a specific standard, open, and unencumbered format. Standards are there to avoid this very problem BBC claims to have.

Then if BBC wants to be sure a player presents their product well, they should consider contacting the developers and financially sponsoring the project.