[Malvern] Petition against BBC iPlayer

[Matthew Wild]

Forwarding this on from the Ubuntu UK mailing list, apologies if people are
already aware of it here...

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From: Jason Liquorish <jason at dropshock.com>
Date: Jul 10, 2007 2:45 AM
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Petition against BBC iplayer
To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com

After seeing a lot of posts about getting media from sites such as
bbc.co.ukworking I saw this on the Nottingham LUGs mailing list:

Hi all,
  The BBC iPlayer - which provides access to BBC programming for up to

30 days after it's aired - will be released as a Windows only
application, including DRM facilities to restrict users rights, for at
least the first 2 years of the service.

The Open Source Consortium is running a campaign against the release of

the Windows only iPlayer product - including a formal complaint to the
EU on the issue.

To show your support for this issue, please take a moment to sign this
petition:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/

and show your support to the OSC by posting us a message (via the
Contact Us area of the website), or joining the OSC:

http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/

Please feel free to forward this message to any groups or mailing lists
that may be interested in our campaign.

Thanks!

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