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   From: David Aldred    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: BBC may shut off non-microsoft-users   
   Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:05:29 +0000   
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   Bernard Mercier wrote:   
      
   > Goeroeboeroe wrote :   
   >> Hello,   
   >    
   >> On one of the Kubuntu-forums I saw a call to react on a survey by the BBC   
   >> about providing tv-programs via Internet. I didn't read the whole plan,   
   >> but it seems it's in the plan they're thinking about only serving   
   >> Microsoft-users.   
      
   > It's a deterrent survey.   
   > Having to fill in personal info to start with will deter people to fill it   
   > in. Very clever seen by the BBC to reduce the n° of responses.   
      
   Actually, having completed the survey and looked at the paper to which   
   people are responding by completing it,  that paper says that the BBC   
   *should* provide data in an OS-agnostic manner.      
      
   The problem seems to be that the BBC is constrained to use DRM (since it is   
   under contract on much of its material) and needs to find an effective way   
   of providing DRM protected material across OSs.    
      
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   David Aldred   
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