Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Sunday 27 January 2008 19:10 : \____
>
>> It is also interesting to note, that these streams are not encrypted
>> (and can be ripped), which raises the question of the BBC's claim, that
>> their "content providers" insistence that all content must be
>> "protected" with DRM was intractable. Obviously *that* was a lie too.
>
> Oh, I hit the reply button too fast. Now that I've read all the rest, the above
> is definitely worth adding as another big lie.
>
Considering that they broadcast this stuff en-clair on satellite and
terrestrial tv and radio, it always was quite untrue. It was just "yet
another excuse" that the BBC-Microsoft crowd could trot-out for their
wasteage of £millions of licence-fee cash.
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