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Britons Rally Against BBC DRM

by Mike Abundo on August 16th, 2007

BBC DRM Rally

I told the BBC putting Microsoft DRM in their iPlayer was a bad idea. Now the British are petitioning their Prime Minister to have the government-funded network drop DRM. Britons are holding street rallies outside the BBC’s office. No, I’m not kidding.

Surveys show people hate DRM. Now, street protests show just how much people hate DRM. I admire the BBC for the most part; hope they correct this one big mistake.

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3 opinions for Britons Rally Against BBC DRM

  • David
    Aug 16, 2007 at 4:27 am

    Personally I’m not against the BBC using DRM…but that’s not what I want to comment on..just the little point that the BBC is a government-funded network, its not. Its paid for by the public through a TV licence and is independent of the government…an important distinction that is not always recognised in the rest of the world (especially the 9/11 conspirators) who have on occassion doubted its independence

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    Aug 16, 2007 at 7:35 pm

    […] Activists Rally Against iPlayer DRM, staging protests outside the offices of the BBC calling on the Prime Minister to step in and stop the practice of protecting content they paid for through the national television license. (Inside Online Video) […]

  • Peter Raines
    Sep 29, 2007 at 10:41 pm

    I like Microsoft. It’s flaws make (some) money for me & my business.
    I respect the need for digital rights.
    Microsoft is simply not qualified to manage DR.
    It’s track record, business ethic, and overwhelming history of consumer cost in wasted time, money and effort clearly disqualify it.

    Here’s another referenced negative evaluation of MS DRM.
    http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=299&tag=nl.e539

    The major side of my business is JIT manufacturing, and the software to manage this.
    In the past 7 years even the US military customers have clearly migrated away from MS OS-es, for FTP and email orders, payments & accounting, automation and more.
    The core expenses, we know, for MS-centric operations are provably higher.

    More disadvantaged and 3rd world users won’t be starting with microsoft, or therefore it’s DRM.
    The Western world is following suite.
    Get the sophomoric MS oriented manager(s) out of the Beeb.
    They will cost the world the loss of fair access to the last remaining source of good information.

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