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BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content
oik writes "The BBC has quietly added DRM to its iPlayer content. This breaks support for things like the XBMC plugin as well as other non-approved third-party players. The get-iplayer download page has a good summary of what happened, including links to The Reg articles and the BBC's response to users' complaints."
You realize with IP that there's also *producer* rights not just consumer rights?
You can't just leave the content producers out in the cold. Particularly when you're trying to convince them to pay a TV license fee.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
The progressive media has already started the "smear-campaign" against the Teaparty movement. I hope I'm wrong, but I have a funny feeling, come November, if it appears that a lot of the democrat incumbants who are up for re-election are getting trounced in the polls, that Comrade Obama, as CinC, will rustle up a nice little staged "incident", and declare Martial law.. There goes the elections, and there goes the USA down the shithole... It wouldn't take much, something on the order of Waco or the like... Then the good old USA then becomes the USSA........
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Yes. They profit from the sale of DVD's and Blu-ray. You may not like it, but they do, and they are taking steps to protect that revenue stream. If they did not have this option, I would probably not be able to freely view this content via browser as is. They would simply make everyone buy the disk when it came out.
Is BBC entirely funded by the tax-payer? Do you agree that any taxes eliminated by profits that they may make are a good thing? You can't have it both ways. I can only assume that the BBC is much like PBS in the US (public funded). PBS is a wasteland of uninteresting content here and doesn't have near the recognition of BBC. If they have a successful model that doesn't cost your tax payers too much, I personally wouldn't be so quick to criticize this move.
I think the change in attitudes happened with the switch to digital. Under the old analog copying systems, you could get a copy, but it was never very good. With the advent of digital, you can get an exact copy, and copy it an unlimited number of times.
It does make a difference. In one scenario, they are asking people who do want to keep permanent copies of the content to buy them. In your preferred scenario, everyone pays for them (via higher fees), even if they don't want to buy them.