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[News] Cory Doctorow on Abuse of Free Software Users at the BBC

  • Subject: [News] Cory Doctorow on Abuse of Free Software Users at the BBC
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:31:43 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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The BBC is encrypting its HD signal by the back door

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| The corporation is set to betray licence-fee 
| payers and the UK tech industry by caving in to 
| Hollywood studios' demands
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/29/bbc-hd-encryption

Censorship:

Criminal Records

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| The federal ban on depictions of animal cruelty 
| violates the right to free speech.
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http://reason.com/news/show/136406.html


Recent:

Help Save the BBC from HDTV DRM

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| As Watson rightly points out, if this scheme is adopted it is
| highly unlikely free software projects will be able to obtain the
| appropriate keys, for the simple reason that they are not
| structured in a way that allows them to enter into the
| appropriate legal agreements (not least because they couldn't
| keep them). Of course, it will probably be pretty trivial for
| people to crack the encryption scheme, thus ensuring that the
| law-abiding free software users are penalised, while those
| prepared to break the law are hardly bothered at all.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2523&blogid=14
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