Last Wednesday, at a House of Commons hearing regarding procurement, Liberal Democrat John Pugh was critical of the BBC's Director General over the decision to support Windows and Internet Explorer exclusively in the initial release of the iPlayer. The iPlayer is intended to allow U.K. residents the ability to download recent programs to view for a limited time. They also offer a Streaming ... [ read the full article ]
Please read the original article before posting your comments.
Really im not mad at the BBC for sticking with the microsoft DRM system as long as they did, as pre all of this drm was pretty hot... however the wind of drm turned at the right time.
Im just glad that someone saw some sense that there was no point implimenting a DRM system that was flawed, could be cracked and locking to one older os when if someone was ever seriously going to steal content from a tv show they would go after a dvb feed which was far better quality and uncrypted.
I must say since its flash re-launch its really good, i prefer the bbc iplayer to the 4OD service anyday.
Originally posted by plazma247: zippy chap, the BBC gets subsidized by the TV licence we pay in the uk, so effectivly they are getting paid (given) money to develope it anyway.
Basically for the sake of a DMR system that didnt work, which I and many other people 2 be flawed, in some earlier post in the year they were tying it to windows xp for no reason.
Really im not mad at the BBC for sticking with the microsoft DRM system as long as they did, as pre all of this drm was pretty hot... however the wind of drm turned at the right time.
Im just glad that someone saw some sense that there was no point implimenting a DRM system that was flawed, could be cracked and locking to one older os when if someone was ever seriously going to steal content from a tv show they would go after a dvb feed which was far better quality and uncrypted.
I must say since its flash re-launch its really good, i prefer the bbc iplayer to the 4OD service anyday.
2 rules for goverment is either underfunded or mishandled :P
