[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[Peter Childs]

On 01/01/07, salsaman at xs4all.nl <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Please forward !
>
> The Council of the EU has a streaming service so that we can watch its
> meetings — but the service can only be accessed by Mac or MS Windows
> users. This is because they employ WMV format for the videos. In the FAQ
> they express a really strange opinion about this: 'The live streaming
> media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on
> Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms.

> We cannot support Linux in a legal way.

How does that one work surly in the line of being open and clear, they
can not really support Windows in a legal way because its not open.
Hmm I would like to see how that works. Maybe taking them to court
would work.

Peter Childs

> So the answer is: No support for Linux.' An online petition has
> been set up to create pressure to convince the EU council to change its
> service to one that is platform independent.
>
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> The "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union" should be
> available for everybody and not only for Mac and MS Windows users.
> Change the service in that way, that also linux/bsd/.. user can use it.
> One Solution would be to use the free theora codec for the videos.
>
> http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody
>
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