[YLUG] Free the BBC!

[Richard G. Clegg]

Pete Fenelon wrote:

> No, I'm arguing that if they *can* protect their output they might as
> well do so - what's the alternative? A few open-source zealots won't
> download iPlayer. Big deal. Their loss.

Hold on -- apart from fashionable intellectual property zealotry, what 
possible reason can there be for putting DRM on the BBC material when 
the people who have paid for it to be created have said "do not do 
this"?  Even a whacko libertarian "everything is property" cannot surely 
put forward a good argument for this lunacy?

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/