p2pnet - rss feed: BBC to unshackle iPlayer
p2pnet news | TV:- The BBC says it’ll partially unshackled its iPlayer, currently locked up tight with Microsoft DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control technology.
Ironically, Britain’s famed national broadcaster recently named Altnet CTO Anthony Rose head of digital media technology at the BBC.
Altnet is a Sharman Networks associate which tries to make a living peddling DRM.
Sharman owns Kazaa, the discredited P2P file sharing application which is central to the bulk of the controversial corporate music industry sue ‘em all P2P file sharing cases.
Meanwhile, users of Apple Mac and Linux machines will be able to use iPlayer by the end of the year and it’s also signed up with Adobe to provide Flash video for the whole of the BBC’s video services, including a streaming version of its iPlayer, it says.
Right now, only Windows XP users can use iPlayer.
Downloaded BBC programs commit suicide after 30 days and will presumably continue to do so, no matter what platform they’re on.
But anything which can be seen and/or heard and/or downloaded can be copied by one digital or analogue means or another, and 30 days will give anyone who wants to retain BBC shows plenty of time to decide how to do so.
BBC viewers have to buy licences to watch/listen.
The Beeb also agreed a deal with WiFi firm The Cloud, with 7,500 hotspots around the country, it says, going on that any WiFi enabled device will be able to surf the BBC’s website in one of The Cloud’s hotspots without paying a log-in or subscription fee.
“Users wanting to download a BBC programme, or stream a video, will have to use a laptop initially,” but, the Beeb says it will eventually allow users to download via portables such as the Sony PSP and Nokia 95.
Also See:
BBC - BBC online to go free over wi-fi, October 15, 2007
Anthony Rose - BBC hires Kazaa confederate, September 17, 2007
P2P file sharing - RIAA accused of ‘Failure to Warn’, October 15, 2007
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