____/ [H]omer on Monday 10 March 2008 08:53 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | A few days ago, they launched an iPhone version
>
> These are DRM-free MP4 files (I just tried it, and it works).
>
> But wait, I'm confused ... this is now the /second/ "unprotected" format
> that the MSBBC has used to publish media that their content providers
> /insisted/ *must* be protected with DRM.
>
> Someone at the MSBBC has been telling porkies ... again.
>
> So now that they've well established this content can indeed be
> published to the Web completely en clair, presumably we can expect them
> to offer direct links to Theora and/or Dirac downloads of that same
> content, for the benefit of those MSBBC tax payers who have no wish to
> support their convicted monopolist business partner, Microsoft.
>
> Perhaps Dr. John Pugh MP could ask Mark Thomson for clarification, as
> there's obviously some confusion at the MSBBC about what their policies
> are supposed to be.
I got an E-mail some hours ago. The EU investigates such abuses and it might
pick the MSBBC as its scapegoat, to show others how its done.
Watch out, Erik Huggers and Ashley Highfield... :-S
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