Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC's DRM Iplayer windows only

[Alex Hudson]

On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 17:54 +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
> > I think there's actually three things at play here:
> > 
> >      1. whether or not the player is free software;
> >      2. whether or not the video codecs are free software;
> >      3. whether or not the BBC use DRM.
> > 
> > At the moment, 1, 2, & 3 are all 'not'. 1 is pretty trivial imho, and
> > not really worth worrying about.
> 
> 1 would obviate 2 and 3...

In what way? Modern player software has virtually nothing to do with the
actual data consumed. Likewise, if the data has a free codec, who cares
if the BBC player is proprietary, since it's then easily replaceable.

Cheers,

Alex.