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   Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:54:11 +0100   
   From: "Dirk T. Verbeek"    
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   Subject: Re: BBC may shut off non-microsoft-users   
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   David Aldred schreef:   
   > 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.    
   >    
   Which 'as such' does not disturb me.   
   I'm quite willing to pay for what I consume, be it beer or a documentary.   
   The good that might come out of this is a formidable player like the BBC    
   instigating the development of an alternative, preferably OSS, system to    
   enable DRM.   
   As a matter of fact, I'm fairly sure a lot of the IP owners would like    
   to NOT be tied to a single supplier, especially a convicted monopolist    
   like MS.   
   However Rotten some of them (RIAA etc.) are by them self...   
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