Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Becky Hogge, Open Rights Group, on the BBC, iPlayer and DRM, interviewed by
> Sean Daly
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The first was that the use of Microsoft-only DRM was not a good way for the
>| BBC to go. Now, we've worked since with the Open Source Consortium, and
>| they're very concerned about this issue of platform neutrality and of market
>| distortion, because with the BBC only using Microsoft DRM and only making its
>| services available to Microsoft, there is the potential for market distortion
>| there. And we always make the analogy that if the BBC developed a great new
>| soap opera, but only let me watch it on a *Sony* TV, the public would be up
>| in arms.
> `----
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2214178,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
>
Excellent - Mr Huggers, Mr Highfield - CVs up to date, chaps?
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