Vista Anti DRM article on BBC

[Geoff]

Seems the BBC has jumped on the AntiDRM bandwagon (love the irony) with an article about Vista.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6286245.stm

[webman]

Ha. Say the same company partnering with Microsoft to deliver DRM'd multimedia?

[Geoff]

And those fun Realmedia audio streams

[CyberNerd]

BBC R&D are developing opensource streaming video codec:

http://schrodinger.sourceforge.net/

[webman]

That's quite a U-turn for the BBC considering their stance on using Microsoft's "streaming technologies" part-way through last year.

[CyberNerd]

There would be political backlash if the BBC locked people into DRM (and therefore operating systems) The BBC is a public service - look at what happened when the EU tried locking people into windows - 17,000 signatures http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody

 

I guess it's fair enough that film makers would back vista and DRM, but it's not in the public interest for the BBC or government to do so.

(least I hope they don't cut the funding now they have a pay cut )

[webman]

That's exactly right, and that's what people complained about when the beeb made the announcement. There was some heated discussions about it on the LXF forums at the time.

[CyberNerd]

I retract my previous comments wrt BBC being 'open'

 

They do indeed plan on implementing DRM, on XP/vista only and giving a substandard service to other platforms.

There is an online consultation if you feel the need to sign up and express a view for *nix / anti DRM.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open-consultations/ondemand_services.html