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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Becky:
Aug 16, 2007 at 01:27 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.
Sean Ellis:
Aug 16, 2007 at 11:23 AM
I notice that coverage of this protest is conspicuously absent from the BBC news website.
Ian Brown:
Aug 16, 2007 at 05:47 PM
Constable Plod then arrested the freetard for wasting police time ;)
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/08/caption.html