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The BBC, an organisation that in the past has championed open standards – according to their own blog – has pledged its support for the W3C proposal put forward by big media giants last week, in an effort to have the standards group push for DRM restrictions on HTML.
The reason this has got many people annoyed at the proposal, is it would potentially allow companies to lock down content for specific groups of people, restricting who can see what. With the BBC pushing for something like this, it could mean that it restricts access to services like the iPlayer – were it to move to a fully HTML5 setup.
As Computer World blogger and open source proponent Glynn Moody writes: “How does the BBC justify using the money paid as a non-optional tax by me and my fellow licence-payers to lock us out from content that we have paid for?”
The BBC is often held up by Brits and those abroad as an upstanding TV service, even if it does have its fair share of drek – it is markedly better in its values and programming than many other broadcasting companies. However, as Moody writes, if the BBC starts circling its digital wagons, how many people will happily continue to pay a license fee if they may not even be able to access the content?
KitGuru Says: Perhaps the reason the BBC wants the DRM via HTML is so that it can prevent those without a license fee from viewing?
The BBC is a joke; it’s just a propaganda machine for a criminal cabal. The BBC has been forced to give refunds to licence fee payers for breach of contract on its requirement to uphold standards in unbiased reporting of news – check for yourself. One private case relates to the BBC’s coverage of the collapse of building seven (twin towers attack), when the BBC reported that the building had collapsed some twenty-three minutes before it actually fell – how did they know it was going to come down? Better to turn off the TV, throw it out of the window (so to speak) and learn to think for yourself. There’s still time, though the odds are against you somewhat…
Further food for thought:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68JLWyPxt7g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI
Fiction, or is it closer to reality than you dare believe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjgE8Lw5YaQ
“To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it… Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning… one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.” – Milton Mayer, “They Thought They Were Free”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qgVn-Op7Q