____/ [H]omer on Saturday 15 March 2008 21:54 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> BBC's download iPlayer goes titsup
>
> [quote]
> It's emerged that hackers across all operating systems are merrily
> grabbing high quality DRM-free downloads from the H.264 streams recently
> launched for iPhone and iPod Touch owners.
> [/quote]
>
> Why are they calling these people "hackers"?
>
> In what way is following a URL "hacking"?
>
> And these MP4 files are unencrypted at /source/. It's not like anyone is
> cracking, or even circumventing, some DRM method. This was the MSBBC's
> choice to provide unencrypted content ... contrary to the supposedly
> intractable demands of their content providers (yes, they were more than
> happy to do that for a tiny minority of iPhone users, but not the much
> larger majority of Linux users. Doesn't anyone else find that odd?).
>
> The only unethical activity going on here, is the misappropriation of
> MSBBC tax for the illegal state aid of a convicted monopolist.
>
> "Hackers" ... LOL!
Georg Greve would call them "an agent of monopolisation". In a sense, Microsoft
acquired the BBC to do its "dirt job" against its most major rivals.
In the case of the Library of Congress, mind you, Microsoft essentially bribed
with $3 million just to rebuild the site with Silverlight, i.e. deny Linux
users access to literature their /own/. The British Library might go the same
way if this vicious company isn't stopped.
From:
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
Microsoft: "... Jihad... Jihad... Jihad"
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