Comments on: OSC complains about BBC iPlayer http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12593 p2pnet.net - reader powered Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:10:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12593#comment-139695 Reader's Write Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:09:38 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12593#comment-139695 It's pathetic, I live in england, yet i'm discriminated against, just because i use a GNU/Linux operating system. Why can't the BBC just use an open source streaming protocol? then any software can be used, elminating restrictions. All their server needs to do, is check the ip address of the client and verify it's within the uk. Yet the BBC feels the need to reinvent the wheel and waste tax payers money. Nothing new there i guess... It’s pathetic, I live in england, yet i’m discriminated against, just because i use a GNU/Linux operating system.

Why can’t the BBC just use an open source streaming protocol? then any software can be used, elminating restrictions. All their server needs to do, is check the ip address of the client and verify it’s within the uk. Yet the BBC feels the need to reinvent the wheel and waste tax payers money. Nothing new there i guess…

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