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Defective by Design protest against BBC iPlayer

Posted by Becky in DRM, Intellectual Property, Open Source at August 14th, 2007

Defective by Design iPlayer protest

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.

The 10 Downing Street iPlayer petition now has over 15,000 signatures. If you haven’t already signed - hurry: there’s less than one week left before it closes!

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3 Responses to “Defective by Design protest against BBC iPlayer”

  1. Sean Ellis Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 11:23 am

    I notice that coverage of this protest is conspicuously absent from the BBC news website.

  2. Becky Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    BBC Backstage reported it:
    http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/08/defective_by_de.html

    And I spoke to someone from the in-house magazine, Ariel. But that was about it.

  3. Ian Brown Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    Constable Plod then arrested the freetard for wasting police time ;)
    http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/08/caption.html

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