____/ ed on Sunday 29 July 2007 18:02 : \____
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:43:39 -0700
> John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:51:53 GMT, ed <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >From: Matt Lee
>>
>> >Today the BBC made it official -- they have been corrupted by
>> >Microsoft. With today's launch of the iPlayer, the BBC Trust has
>> >failed in its most basic of duties and handed over to Microsoft sole
>> >control of the on-line distribution of BBC programming. From today,
>> >you will need to own a Microsoft operating system to view BBC
>> >programming on the web.
>>
>> I used to admire the BBC. Their programming, in earlier days anyway,
>> was always superior to the U.S. crap. Fawlty Towers, Balck Adder, Red
>> Dwarf, etc. You would think they would have had the sense to reward
>> their loyal customers by allowing them to watch a bit of TV
>> unencumbered by DRM. I would have settled for some Xvid or DivX
>> downloads.
>
> I think part of this comes from wanting to keep the content in the UK
> if it came to it. I have no proof of this, but it was just one of those
> things brought up on LR.
DRM does not work. Don't they already know this? Who they they consult with?
Bach and his gang? You can't prevent duplication of data that a human can
consume. It's the old same fundamental argument. All you do is you punish the
innocent.
Those who want to copy data will achieve this easily. It only needs to be done
_once_. Without the DRM shielding layer, Hollywood shackles are pointless. The
data will move from one peer to another, one way or another (killing P2P or
BitTorrent is like 'killing' Linux, or suing the sky).
BTW, Vista does nothing with its DRM pipeline
(wire/GPU/kernel/buffer/DAC/dislay/whatever). It looks nice on paper and just
sucks up resources and kills devices (waste/environment), not to mention
digital preservation concerns. iPods, for example, eat up 40% more battery
juice when playing Defective by Design tracks.
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