____/ John Locke on Saturday 28 July 2007 01:53 : \____
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:46:36 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>BBC Corrupted
>>
>>| Today the BBC made it official -- they have been corrupted by Microsoft.
>>| With today's launch of the iPlayer, the BBC Trust has failed in its most
>>| basic of duties and handed over to Microsoft sole control of the on-line
>>| distribution of BBC programming. From today, you will need to own a
>>| Microsoft operating system to view BBC programming on the web. This is akin
>>| to saying you must own a Sony TV set to watch BBC TV. And you must accept
>>| the Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) that the iPlayer imposes. You
>>| simply cannot be allowed to be in control of your computer according to the
>>| BBC.
>
> Looks like OS X and Linux have been left out in the cold on this one. A
> really bad decision by the BBC. The streaming, of course, will be futher
> encumbered
> by DRM insanity. What were they thinking ?
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