On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 20:38 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > Jake Bunce wrote: > > Maybe someone should make the BBC aware of their Purpose and Values > > statement. As per http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/purpose/ > > > > > > Public purposes > > > > The BBC is a unique institution, owned by the British people and > > independent of political and commercial interests. > > > > > > By only allowing users of a certian operating system, which has to be > > paid for, does that not constitute as a "commercial interest"? > > > > > > I guess you could say that. If the beeb made the video available in a > standard format, say MP4 (due to the fairly good quality and small file > size), or even better using their own video codec then I'm sure it would > not be in any commercial interest especially as a whole load of > devices (PCs, Macs, Linux machines, mobile devices, even the Nintendo DS > with the right hardware) can play MP4 video. > > If they can make it free to air over the airwaves and also on satellite > when why not to residents in the UK. > > Rob >
It is just like the music industry, music is easily copied/recorded from radio/tape/vinyl/CDs just the same as TV programs are easily copied/recorded from TV/VHS. Yet as soon as a song, album, TV program or series gets anywhere near the Internet it has to be protected from people copying it or transferring it to other media, or even restricted to how long or how many times it can be watched or listened to. Content creators and publishers are overly paranoid about what technology is going to do to their profits and sales, and I do not feel that is going to change any time soon. Also note the BBC have agreements with third parties about protecting the content they publish so it is not necessarily the beeb who are pushing the DRM. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
