[sclug] BBC, DRM & MS

[Darren Davison]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 07:39:32PM +0000, John Barron wrote:
> Particularly galling is that I can at least walk away from other DRM, nobody 
> forces me to buy an iPod and use iTunes, or to use Amazon's Unbox player and 
> video downloads; but I *have* paid my license fees and general taxes, and now 
> I'm to be offered the choice of either being excluded from certain BBC 
> services or forced to run a closed-source application that will impose 
> digital restrictions on my otherwise open system?

yes, I made this point as strongly as I could when I answered those
questions too.

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Darren Davison
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