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The BBC can not show the majority of their content on the iPlayer because the rights owners won't let them without DRM. The BBC needs DRM to be able to give us
by robmcm 13y ago
The BBC can not show the majority of their content on the iPlayer because the rights owners won't let them without DRM.
The BBC needs DRM to be able to give us that content.
- 4ad 13y agoThis is an argument against DRM.
- robmcm 13y agoYou don't want to view this content?
- chriswarbo 13y agoNot if the price is so high. Just because advertising spends all day every day telling us that we can't live without something, doesn't make it true. In fact, my usual opinion is that the better the advertising, the less I trust what it says.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 13y agoNo, that's completely the wrong way around. The rights owners could not sell anything to the BBC if the BBC were to simply refuse to buy anything they can not publish without DRM, and not selling anything is not a particularly good business model in most cases. "The rights owners" are in a market, and if the market simply refused to buy broken products, they would have to either deliver a non-broken product or go bankrupt, there is no way in which they could force people to buy broken products in order to sustain them.
- robmcm 13y agoThe BBC fights hard enough to win the rights to show this content, if they didn't the content owners would go to the other channels, Sky, ITV, Channel 4, 5 or even create their own distro like HBO. People, the majority of people don't know what DRM is, they don't care, they just want to watch content. One of the biggest problems in tech and forums like these is that everyone thinks they are so much more significant than they are, they don't realise they are such a tiny minority of the consumer spectrum.
- shmerl 13y agoBBC as a distributor still has way more influence than a single individual. By rejecting DRMed content they'll send a strong message to the publishers. It works in other cases, so I see why it can't work with video as well.
- robmcm 13y agoDoesn't appear like they do have influence http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/17/bbc-drm-w3c http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/17/bbc-drm-w3c
- shmerl 13y agoIt only says that they "don't feel the requirement will change". It says nothing about their potential influence. I'd say they are just chickening and don't have guts to stand up against crazy Lysenkoist publishers which insist on DRM. It doesn't mean they can't - they just don't want to. That was the whole point. As long as distributors would continue cowardly proliferating DRM, the situation will remain as is.