[Malvern] Petition against BBC iPlayer

[Angus Clarke]

Thank you

Having been thoroughly disheartened to learn of the BBC's most recent 
movements (DRM tie in with M$) i was wondering how I could voice my 
opinion. Thus far, I had only considered writing to the BBC to voice my 
concerns and to cease using their services (website + tv.) A letter, I 
fear, would probably amount to nothing. Not being a leader in the world, 
im glad someone else has had the wits about them to start a petition.

I presume the BBC do this from the fat cats at the top crumbling to 
pressure from M$ in other areas (or taking a good deal on software 
licences - the two things are one and the same in my mind)

I will certainly forward this on.

The BBC still use Linux servers for the majority of their www (according 
to Netcraft today anyway) perhaps this will be changing soon under some 
licence deal that I conspiratorially leaned towards above. Keep an eye out!

Best Regards
Angus

Matthew Wild wrote:
> Forwarding this on from the Ubuntu UK mailing list, apologies if 
> people are already aware of it here...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Jason Liquorish * <jason at dropshock.com 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> After seeing a lot of posts about getting media from sites such as 
> bbc.co.uk <http://bbc.co.uk> working 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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