One would assume that if they 'donated' their 'millions dollars worth patents for free to GPL projects'. Is there already an open standard for DRM? The solution is this: don't use DRM! Seriously, it's as simple as that. In fact, it's mathematically proven to be the only solution. There can't be an open standard for DRM. DRM relies on obfuscation. It's utterly pointless and only serves to give the authors the illusion that their content is protected. As long as they want to use DRM Well gee, seeing that the material is publicly available, and already paid for by a compulsory TV license and also already available in digital form without DRM through the terrestrial digital broadcast why exactly do they have to use DRM to begin with?
I only see a few reasons: a "Content providers" refuse to license their shows if they don't b They have partnered with MS and MS refuse to develop a system that doesn't. Basically what it boils down to is drop the DRM or drop the public funding.
As long as the material is paid for by the public it should be available to the public. Parent Share twitter facebook Re:What can they really do? While most of their shows are public broadcast in the UK they license them to other TV stations that release on a different schedule.
These other channels would not want to pay the same amount if the shows were available on the internet for free before they showed them on their channels. The season may be long over in the UK some times years over but the DVDs won't release until after the american syndication has aired.
As long as they want to use DRM, what options do they have? The problem is that the premise -- i. I know that public transport can be and is well done over there But, I gotta ask I mean, I'm a single guy..
I like to cook, but, no way I could do my shopping. When you buy a house 30 miles from your work, think about it, factor in the huge cost which driving will eventually be. It'd be better to encourage folks with huge buy-to-let portfolios to divest themselves of all those spare houses to get some balance back into the housing market. Then maybe folks could afford houses in London again that aren't next to crack houses or crime blackspots and people wouldn't have to commute so far or indenture themselves to the banks for the next 25 years.
Or more generally, to increase the cost which is not necessarily congruent to "price". You could instead keep the price the same but decrease the convenience, for example. I think they ought to increase that to two, not by adding an additional lane, but by. The only way to reduce traffic is to increase the price as much as possible. This is the ONLY way that people will stop driving.
You can make public transport free, with dancing girls and free beer, leaving from your stop every 20 seconds, and people will still complain, and get in their car. The UK has great public transport, compared to most over countries - yet still people whinge, and drive the 3 miles into work.
They are evidence of negative publicity. The key consideration is to make the archive directly available only to it's customers and no-one else. Everything good is available via bittorrent, if people are prepared to go through an illegal third-party to get tv programmes they can do so already. If that's not accepta. The only way to be sure of these points, is to use DRM.
No, the only way to be sure of these points is nothing. Because DRM is mathematically-flawed snake oil anyway! Trying to secure content the way the BBC wants is a lost cause. It always has been. The would would be a better place if media companies would simply realize that and move on! Stream to UK licence holding citizens.
In which case the service is free i. So they have to be able to limit this stream to valid licence holders, hence DRM. Stream to non-UK licence holding citizens. In which case they can charge for the service but they have to be able to ensure that it is only going to those who have paid, hence DRM. The problem, as someone has already pointed out, is not with DRM which is the solution to their problem whether we like. They're trying to be good guys here.
Well, then they're failing miserably at it! The BBC does not work in isolation. It works in partnership with other broadcasters around the world. And in making its content freely available to licence payers in the UK it has to make sure that it doesn't abuse the rights of its partners by giving away content to those outside the UK, where the rights may be shared with or even wholely owned by those partners.
You make some good points - but I suspect that the solution which the BBC has chosen doesn't actually address the threats which they perceive. All they're doing is stating a fact! The entire concept of DRM is fatally flawed, in that it simultaneously tries to provide and withold the content from the user. It should be obvious, even if you're not an expert in cryptography, that this is fundamentally, mathematically, impossible. At the end of the day there are cases where someone owns or has licensed content and they either desire or are leg.
For those not aware of how British politics works: Blair and now Brown's government both follow what is known as the ' tabloid agenda [blogs. Heads of the Labour government regularly meet with Rupert Murdoch, in fact Murdoch was known as the hidden member [guardian.
Don't think Brown is any better though: an interview [bbc. As the BBC is competition to Murdoch he would like to see it shutdown. This is natural. So when the government comes out with weird statements like:. It's pretty obvious to me who's behind the complaints. The people--whom the government are supposed to serve--just want the BBC to be the best it can be, and if private media can't keep up?
Then it shouldn't be in business! Particularly when considering how these words are touting 'public interest' then enforcing the use of DRM? Public interest my arse. In the words of Hugo Swire shadow culture secetary :. We're going to have to see if this trust has teeth and the iPlayer is the test There are companies who feel threatened by the BBC. So as usual, it's all big company interests.
Not that I think they shouldn't try, however it's unlikely they'll be able to remove their heads from Rupert Murdoch's arsehole long enough to listen. Why don't they use a flash based video player Maybe because Flash has the most horrific video format known to man? How about a Java-based video player? Well, because then everyone is locked into using Flash. It sounds like a great idea, but "just because everyone else is doing it" isn't really a good reason. I believe there were a lot of problems with Flash video on Linux though I think these are largely resolved now?
I think the crux of the issue here is they should be releasing their videos in a DRM free, open format that anyone can access on any platform in any player. If they use an open video system that anyone can make a player for, it'll work ev. Rupert Murdoch has absolutely everything to do with the BBC. There fixed. Read my post above, this has everything to do with Rupert Murdoch and other companies putting pressure upon the British government to stop the BBC providing a good on line service.
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Re:google-what, now? Score: 2 , Insightful. When Redmond start doing hilariously tragic things involving satellite mapping and invasion of privacy, then sure, we'll talk about it. But for now, Google is funnier. Re: Score: 1. Microsoft was involved in satellite mapping Terraserver - June before Google existed September , and its operating systems have a nasty tendency to "phone home. Re: Score: 1 , Funny. Why are you surprised? Microsoft and Google are the two biggest tech companies out there, so it's only natural that most of the stories on Slashdot will be about one of them.
And then the rest are the odd Linux and Sci-Fi story thrown in, and a smattering of left-wing politics stories. Oh, and some long rambling commentary from Bennett Haselton about spam or something.
Re: Score: 2. Yet you're still here. Mapplets, Eh? Score: 4 , Interesting. From TFA: Google is hoping to unite the information mishmash by encouraging mashup developers to package the creations into mini-applications called "mapplets" that will be posted under the "My Maps" section of Google's Web site.
Share twitter facebook. This is great. And amazingly accurate. They probably don't want this out, or the stock will slip to a realistic level. Mapplets not Apps Score: 4 , Insightful. Re: Score: 1 , Offtopic. I, for one, welcome our new Web 2. Isn't this mashups 2. Mapquest vs Google Maps Score: 3 , Interesting. I used to be an avid Mapquest user till I discovered Google maps.
It's all about habit formation. Changing consumer habits is like pushing water up hill. MapQuest was first to market, so in most minds, it is still the de-facto 'direction finder thingy'. I'd imagine it's also the thousands of existing sites like phone books, real estate sites, etc. Mapquest if you take those embedded, no choice links out of the picture.
Re: Score: 3 , Informative. In the states at least, Mapquest's directions engine is slightly better than Google Maps'.
Re: Score: 2 , Interesting. I must admit I just had to look up MapQuest as I'd never heard of it. I live in the UK and over here services such as Streetmap [streetmap. I wouldn't be surprised if Google Maps was the most popular these days though. I've been using the My Maps functionality of Google Maps quite a lot recently to keep private maps of where my friends live etc. I can certainl.
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