http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/07/25/bbc-trust-iplayer-must-be-cross-platform/ Protecting your rights in the digital age Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:13:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/07/25/bbc-trust-iplayer-must-be-cross-platform/#comment-124384 The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » UK Government accused of breaching state aid rules in software procurement Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:41:45 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/07/25/bbc-trust-iplayer-must-be-cross-platform/#comment-124384 [...] market distortion was “up to the people contracting”. The debate is reminiscent of concerns about the BBC’s Microsoft-only iPlayer raised by the Open Source Consortium, the Free Software Foundation, the Open Rights Group and many [...] [...] market distortion was “up to the people contracting”. The debate is reminiscent of concerns about the BBC’s Microsoft-only iPlayer raised by the Open Source Consortium, the Free Software Foundation, the Open Rights Group and many [...]

]]> http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/07/25/bbc-trust-iplayer-must-be-cross-platform/#comment-97689 The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » Defective by Design protest against BBC iPlayer Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:28:27 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/07/25/bbc-trust-iplayer-must-be-cross-platform/#comment-97689 [...] DRM protesters Defective by Design braved the drizzle today to make their feelings known about the BBC iPlayer. I went down to join in, and found Hazmat-suit clad protesters calling for the BBC to reconsider its decision to use Microsoft DRM on the new online catch-up service, released in beta at the end of last month. You can see more photos of the protest in the Open Rights Group Flickr photo pool. [...] [...] DRM protesters Defective by Design braved the drizzle today to make their feelings known about the BBC iPlayer. I went down to join in, and found Hazmat-suit clad protesters calling for the BBC to reconsider its decision to use Microsoft DRM on the new online catch-up service, released in beta at the end of last month. You can see more photos of the protest in the Open Rights Group Flickr photo pool. [...]

]]> http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/07/25/bbc-trust-iplayer-must-be-cross-platform/#comment-93065 Post Political Times » Blog Archive » iPlayer and the Mac Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:13:23 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/07/25/bbc-trust-iplayer-must-be-cross-platform/#comment-93065 [...] But, the fact that I have a clunky workaround now to test the thing (and it may not even be that as worryingly I still don’t see any data arriving…) does not take the pressure off the BBC from having a proper cross-platform product for a cross-platform audience. See this Open Rights Group article for more information. [...] [...] But, the fact that I have a clunky workaround now to test the thing (and it may not even be that as worryingly I still don’t see any data arriving…) does not take the pressure off the BBC from having a proper cross-platform product for a cross-platform audience. See this Open Rights Group article for more information. [...]

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