[Westwales] New protest and petition against BBC's Windows-only iPlayer

John Beisley greatred at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 19:06:00 BST 2007


Happy to say that I was the 11th person to sign that ;)

On 03/08/07, Dan Field <dof at llgc.org.uk> wrote:
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> On 3 Aug 2007, at 09:24, Dafydd Walters wrote:
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> > If you read The Register, you'll probably already know this
> > information, but the FSF has now launched a new campaign to protest
> > against the BBC's intransigence towards providing their iPlayer on
> > any platform except Windows.
>
> I don't see the problem personally. They are developing an OS X
> version for release RSN and there are talks of a Linux version.
>
> The Windows DRM was a condition imposed by the rights holders.
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> Datblygwr Systemau                                     Systems Developer
> Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru                   National Library of Wales
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