[Gllug] Reminder - Protest BBC iPlayer Tomorrow - Tuesday August 14

[Ashley Evans]

Peter Brown wrote:
> Please join me and members of DefectiveByDesign.org as we protest the
> BBC iPlayer from 10:30am tomorrow (Tuesday) at BBC Television Center. We
> will be joined by Green Party spokesperson Derek Wall - helping us frame
> this as an important political issue.
>
> We will have the trademark anti-DRM HazMat suits for you to wear and
> information about the iPlayer to distribute to those visiting BBC
> Television Centre.
>
> Help us apply pressure to BBC executives responsible for the iPlayer
> mess, and encourage the BBC Trust to review their decision to use DRM
> and exclude GNU/Linux users.
>
> BBC TV Centre at 201 Wood Ln, London, W12 7RJ (use White City) from
> 10:30am until 2pm. Please bring a camera.
>
> Thanks to Philip Hands for posting the original announcement to this
> list.
>
> Peter Brown
> Free Software Foundation
>
>   

Hi Peter,

I think that this is great but I thought the the BBC, after the 
e-petition was so successful, to re-engineer the player so as to include 
osx and linux users.  Have I missed something?

Regards,
Ashley

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