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BBC Trust won't investigate iPlayer's open source blackout

article published on 1 March, 2010

The BBC Trust has revealed to The Register that it will not investigate a move by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that resulted in open source software being unable to play content from the iPlayer service. The BBC blocked out open source implementations of the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) streaming content from the iPlayer service through the use of SWF Verification. ... [ read the full article ]

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SmOkM
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_ 		1. March 2010 @ 11:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
this has nothing to do with piracy to me, its a clamp down on competition and another step in a streaming, codec, and format war.

after so long with things championing open source and other free reign movements on the net, ive started to see many stories like this going in a reverse direction.
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eiamhere
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_ 		2. March 2010 @ 03:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I agree. Adobe are very close to being pushed out of a lot of leading positions. Rather than adapt their tech. or compete, they just cheat.

BBC is payed for by the UK public (stealth tax) and so should be open to all of the public in an easy, accessable fashion. But, this is the BBC we're talking about.
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