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Having actually spoken to some of the people who work on this stuff at the BBC, they don't want to. They want to make as much quality television accessible to a
by pidg 11y ago
Having actually spoken to some of the people who work on this stuff at the BBC, they don't want to. They want to make as much quality television accessible to as many people as possible.
In fact, internal systems already exist for accessing any BBC programme from the last (n) years. There's also a system for schools and universities that gives you access to the last year or so of programming. It's pressures from external production companies that prevent these from being rolled out to the public.
However, there will always be rights issues until the state has complete ownership over all TV production - which is never going to happen.
(Also - what's 'evil' about content creators wanting to protect their intellectual property and income?)
- exodust 11y agoContent creators care about publishing schedules and expiry dates - how long the content is available on iPlayer. That's their primary concern. What exactly is DRM protecting them against? It's not geo-blocking, that's done on the server. There's no "download button" that suddenly appears on iPlayer if the content isn't encrypted. So please remind me what protective benefits DRM brings the rights holders and content creators? Keep in mind, it's trivial to screen capture video on any half-decent computer. Anyone "determined" enough simply needs screen capture software and then hit record.