[Sderby] BBC iplayer pertition

[Adam Armstrong]

>> Bollocks. That's like saying BBC programs will only be viewable on Sony 
>> PCs. It's more akin to saying that content won't be available via 
>> analogue terrestrial signals, or sky.
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> Eh? Now try that again in a way that makes sense.
>   
It makes perfect sense to me. Your local college may have classes on 
basic comprehension.
>> What about people with NTSC equipment? Should they be supported too?
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> You will find that PAL is a standard within the UK for the encoding of
> TV signals, as such it is reasonable to accept that the BBC and all uk
> tv broadcasters to broadcast in PAL.
>   
You will find that Microsoft Windows is the global standard for home 
pcs, as such it is reasonable to accept that the BBC and all UK content 
providers primarily support Microsoft Windows. (Channel 4 do the same 
with 4OD)
>> *shrug*
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> Ah yes, valid arguement, therefore *shrug*. Well done. 
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*shrug*
>>> Point 3: The BBC has a charter from Her Majesties government to provide
>>> information services to the the British people. As such, they are
>>> required by law to make their programming as accessable as possible.
>>> Which is why you will find they have programming for the deaf, etc...
>>>  
>>>       
>> Find me the part where it says they have to let everyone have intertubes 
>> access to everything, from any client they like.
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> The bit where it says they have a duty of care to provide services to
> the british people, not just a small subset of a small subset.
> Especially when as previously stated there is no technical reason not to
> do so.
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The entire windows userbase is not a small subset of a small subset. 
It's the overwhelming majority. There may be an argument for support on 
Mac. But all the many and varied Unixes? Bollocks is there.
>> Where on earth are you buying your XP licenses?
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> Last time was from Greymatter I think, they are one of the approved
> resellers in the UK. When you get away from OEM licensing, it gets very
> expensive.
>   
And that's why almost all home users have OEM licenses.
>> I think you're being a moron by using the word 'discriminate'.
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> I think the fact that you are unable to post to this thread without
> being rube, obnoxious and insulting question if you are a fully vertical
> homo sapien, or if you are infact just some rotund person of
> questionable parentage who gets a kick out of baiting a group of geeks.
>   
Quite.
> Might I suggest you come back to your computer when you have evolved
> abit further?
>   
Well, that was messy, let me just wipe off the goo...
>> The BBC are merely making slightly less than optimal decisions. 
>> Discrimination is an altogether different situation.
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> Prey tell, what do you feel to be the definition of descrimination?
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The dictionary would tell us that it's simply to treat something 
differently. But that's not what you meant, is it?

You meant that a willful decision was made to support one group of users 
over another group of users. That just wasn't the case, the decision was 
made based upon legal requirements and the available tools.


adam.