Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> ____/ Robert Newson on Saturday 28 July 2007 08:06 : \____
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> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >>>Looks like OS X and Linux have been left out in the cold on this one. A
> >>>really bad decision by the BBC. The streaming, of course, will be futher
> >>>encumbered by DRM insanity. What were they thinking ?
> >>
> >> $$$
> >
> > = (£££)/2 ^_^
>
> Haha. I swear I was going to type just that, but then decided to KISS (keep it
> simple, stupid).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6245062.stm
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 13:18 GMT 14:18 UK
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BBC web downloads set to launch
BBC Future Media & Technology Director Ashley Highfield launches the
iPlayer.
The BBC's on demand TV service, the BBC iPlayer, will launch to the
public on 27 July, the corporation has revealed.
UK users will be able to download popular shows over the net seven days
after broadcast to watch on their PC.
Later this year, the service will also be available via links from
YouTube and could also appear on other websites such as MSN, Bebo, and
Facebook.
At launch the application will only work on Windows PCs but a version
for the Mac could be available by autumn.
[...]
Critical view
The lifetime of downloads is controlled by a digital rights managements
system (DRM) supplied by Microsoft.
Some critics of the iPlayer, notably advocacy group the Open Source
Consortium (OSC), has said that programmes should be made available
without these digital locks.
However, Mr Highfield said this was not possible.
"We wouldn't be able to launch the iPlayer at all without digital rights
management," he said.
"The rights holders - the people that make the programmes, from Ricky
Gervais to the independent producers that account for up to a third of
our programming - simply wouldn't have given us the rights to their
programmes unless we could demonstrate very robust digital rights
management."
The OSC has also criticised the BBC for initially releasing the iPlayer
as a Windows-only system and has threatened to make a complaint to the
European Commission.
The OSC argues that the system should work on all computer operating
systems.
"I am fundamentally committed to universality, to getting the BBC
iPlayer to everyone in the UK who pays their licence fee," said Mr
Highfield.
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