<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> > Now, I'd love to see this situation change. I think the BBC is just<br>> > the sort of heavyweight who could really land a blow for the consumer
<br>> > in freeing this material which, as someone as rightly noticed, is<br>> > being guarded without consideration to the side effects.<br>><br>> Yes, and that is the main reason to make noise about it.
<br><br>Great, but "you guys are idiots, why can't you see what you're doing<br>is immoral, illegal, evil..." serves only to make us look immature and<br>makes us very easy to ignore.<br><br>Lets convince them that they're wrong. Lets convince them that we do
<br>value their material and that we are willing to pay for it - but only<br>on sensible, fair terms. Lets remind them that they're unlikely to<br>widen their audience by clamping down on it. </blockquote><div><br>Right. Simple frenzied 'you are wrong, evil, ....' won't work. Shouldn't work I hope.
<br>Being constructive AND trying to help in resolving the issues by offering support<br>and criticism, if required, is the way to go.<br><br>For example, the ORG, does lobby, try to discuss the various issues with the bbc and bbc trust.
<br>Other organisations do that as well. The BBC does have a big good will credit simply because they<br>do a good job, and try to do it better.<br><br>| But lets not pretend that we have rights and protections that we do not.
<br>As I said earlier the iPlayer issue is related to copyrights, but not a copyright issue on its own. <br>I might feel it is unfair towards me, since I can't use the service. I can probably go around this, since a<br>
PVR will do (nearly) the same job for me. The real wrong is that in its current state the iPlayer service <br>does not give a chance for independent access to the service. <br><br>Let's take the TVs as a tired and tested argument vehicle
<br>PAL is a way to encode and transmit colour to TVs. SECAM, NTSC are others. I can watch PAL programs<br>on any TV set by any manufacturer. Not only Philips, or Samsung.<br>As it stands with the iPlayer service I could watch it only by using the MS based client and no other...
<br>That is wrong, anticompetitive and leads to the other unfairness - lack of linux, mac, ... support.<br>If they chose let's say Real, it would probably not change the core unfairness too much.<br><br>It's not only about rights we have or not. It is about openness, it is about trying to push towards a fairer
<br> copyright and IP law in general. That won't happen with 'You are evil' style arguments. That won't happen with silence either.<br></div></div>