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Official Statement Objecting BBC/OFCOM Proposal
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| The Linux Foundation, on behalf of its
| members, would like to register its
| serious objections to the current
| BBC/OFCOM proposal, which would impose
| content management controls on new free-
| to-air high definition channels. The plan,
| which involves restrictively licensing the
| Huffman codes used in the electronic
| programme guide, would have a negative
| effect on open source applications and
| would distort the markets which have built
| up around those applications.
|
| The treatment of Open Source in the BBC
| document is incorrect and ignores the
| severe market distortions that this
| content management scheme would produce in
| open platforms. The use of Open Source
| within the market segments that would be
| affected by the BBC proposal can be
| divided into two business models:
| Proprietary but built on Open Source and
| fully open platforms. The HD Freesat
| system the BBC used to characterise Open
| Source falls into the Proprietary but open
| category; no analysis at all was attempted
| of the fully open category. The failure to
| look at fully open platforms leads to an
| important segment of the market being
| ignored.
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https://www.linuxfoundation.org/content/official-statement-objecting-bbcofcom-proposal
An Open Letter to Ofcom on the BBC HD DRM Proposals
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| ...teach and conduct research at the Open
| University, which since its inception has
| used broadcast and multimedia technologies
| in education, we are writing to express
| our objections to the proposal to allow
| the BBC to add a Digital Rights Management
| (DRM) flag to its high definition (HD)
| output.
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http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3199
Last Chance to Save BBC from DRM
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| This leading question (and they are all
| phrased thus) pretty much indicates that
| Ofcom has made up its mind about the
| issue, and is simply going through the
| motions of consultation. Note, too, the
| euphemism âcopy managementâ, when what we
| are talking about here is DRM, plain and
| simple: even Ofcom is aware that trying to
| espouse the benefits of DRM is a lost
| cause.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2884&blogid=14
How do you want to watch HD TV in the future? It's time to tell Ofcom
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| If you run open source capture/viewing
| software, such as MythTV, things get a
| little trickier. The developers of MythTV
| can't sign an agreement with the BBC in
| order to obtain the decoding tables,
| because part of the terms of the agreement
| are that the decoding tables aren't given
| out to anybody else. This is fundamentally
| opposed to the open source nature of the
| project, so simply won't happen.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/01/bbc-hd-consultation-hdmi
DRMs in the draft Copyright Amendments
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| India has been under a lot of pressure
| from the US, due to the Special 301 report
| which US puts out annually, to amend and
| enforce its copyright laws to a standard
| closer to what the US would want; usually
| standards which the US has succeeded in
| pushing through in WIPO treaties.
| Therefore, essentially, it is the same
| lobby which pushes for stricter laws in US
| as it is in India. (Incidentally, I
| recently wrote a post on Hollywood tying
| up with Bollywood to check piracy in
| India). To further add to this, even as
| their effect in US has come under severe
| criticism; for them to be the lobbying
| party in India without due regard for the
| local context, economy and culture seems
| absurd. For a developing country like
| India, which even other developing
| countries look up to, it is important to
| get their copyright law correct, since the
| alternative is that instead of
| incentivizing and aiding creation and
| creative works, it is creating unnecessary
| barriers to access to creative works
| (especially considering that there is a
| big emphasis in Indian culture to adapt
| and improvise on works already in the
| public domain).
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http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2010/03/drms-in-draft-copyright-amendments.html
Recent:
BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content
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| "The BBC has quietly added DRM to its
| iPlayer content. This breaks support for
| things like the XBMC plugin as well as
| other non-approved third-party players. The
| get-iplayer download page has a good
| summary of what happened, including links
| to The Reg articles and the BBC's response
| to users' complaints."
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http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/28/192246/BBC-Activates-DRM-For-Its-iPlayer-Content
Stop BBC âDigital Rights Managementâ from disabling your HD TV
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| The BBC want an offshore consortium of
| entertainment companies called the "Digital
| Transmission Licensing Administrator" to
| decide how your high definition TV and
| video can work.
|
| The American courts rejected these
| draconian restrictions, so the DTLA has
| chosen to pick on British TV viewers
| instead.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/stop-bbc-drm
OSI Opposes Barriers To Open Source Software For Television
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| The Open Source Initiative Board has added
| OSI to the list of organizations asking
| that the BBC not be allowed to add digital
| restriction measures to digital broadcasts
| in the United Kingdom. The BBC's request to
| do so is being reviewed by the UK
| regulator, OfCOM, and OSI is supporting the
| position statement from the UK's Open
| Rights Group and encouraging others to do
| likewise.
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http://www.opensource.org/node/513
EA's Own Employees Annoyed At Pointless DRM Solutions
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| However, now it appears that it's even
| pissing off EA employees. Slashdot points
| out that the editor of EA.com got really
| frustrated over the game kicking him out
| because his DSL was flakey:
|
| "Booted twice -- and progress lost --
| on my single-player C&C4 game because
| my DSL connection blinked. DRM fail. We
| need new solutions."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100326/1637388740.shtml
Valve dishes DRM dirt
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| We reported last week that Ubisoft's latest
| anti-piracy measures caused a barrage of
| complaints. It was revealed that the system
| forced gamers to login via the publisher's
| website in order to play and required users
| to have a constant Internet connection.
|
| On behalf of Valve and 99.9 per cent of the
| gaming industry, Newell said he thought
| that DRM, in its current form, is
| restrictive and a damaging customer
| experience.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1596469/valve-dishes-drm-dirt
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