Free Software Foundation chairman and all around computer freedom guru Richard Stallman has written an article for the BBC entitled ‘It’s not the Gates, it’s the bars’.
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Why BBC is Microsoft Media (Video)
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Watch the BBC getting grilled at the Parliament over its blind servitude to Microsoft, which it simply cannot defend.
Read more »“Money Trumps Justice”, Vendor Control Trumps Truth
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An analysis of how Microsoft controlled the British press and committees, using wealth
Read more »DRM and the BBC iPlayer: an interview with Paul Battley
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In this post I will interview Paul Battley, the man who wrote the program that worked around the DRM loophole at BBC. ... He wrote a script (in the Ruby programming language) to replace the blocked Firefox extensions. It worked a treat but the BBC blocked that too; however Paul, just like Kenny in Southpark, couldn’t be killed off so easily.
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BBC iPlayer on GNU/Linux without Flash using only free software
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A bit of background to this. The BBC is funded by every single household with a TV in the UK (except old people).
Read more »BBC moves Linux into TV production
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Expensive and error-prone digital tapes has forced BBC UK, one of the world's largest television broadcasters, to look at using computers running Linux to help produce its programs.
Speaking at the annual linux.conf.au Linux and open source conference in Melbourne, Stuart Cunningham from BBC research, said copying digital tapes is a slow process as it must be done in real-time.
To solve this problem, the BBC Research team developed Ingex for tapeless TV production using Linux.
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iPlayer on GNU/Linux
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The new BBC iPlayer went live at around 5.00pm today...the streaming service is for all, whatever OS you’re using, as long as it’s got Flash support.
Read more »BBC admits massive underestimate of Linux users
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The BBC has backtracked on claims that it has only hundreds of Linux users accessing its website.
Read more »No news, but no snooze
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Two things piqued my interest recently. One was the iPlayer protests at the BBC, the other was the Wiki tracker project. More specifically, it was the reporting of these events. In the case of the former, it went virtually unreported and made me proud of our independent and open news sources and reporting network. The latter highlighted (again) the many issues of user-generated content.
Read more »Protesters call on the BBC to eliminate DRM from the “iPlayer”
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"Two weeks after the BBC officially launched the iPlayer, protesters wearing bright yellow Hazmat suits gathered outside BBC Television Center in London and BBC headquarters in Manchester to demand that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) be eliminated from the BBC..."
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What tricks is the BBC up to with Microsoft?
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The BBC iPlayer has been a hot topic on everyone's lips. It's late, doesn't work very well yet, presents some ISPs with a big economic problems, and is limited to Windows XP users running Internet Explorer.
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Free software campaigners stonewalled at BBC
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) mounted its protests against "corruption" of the BBC by Microsoft in London and Manchester this morning.
Read more »Anti-DRM Protesters call on the BBC to eliminate DRM from the iPlayer
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London and Manchester, England – Two weeks after the BBC officially launched the iPlayer, protesters wearing bright yellow Hazmat suits gathered outside BBC Television Center in London and BBC headquarters in Manchester to demand that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) be eliminated from the BBC.
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Free Software Foundation plans protests at 'corrupt' BBC
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is planning protests at key BBC sites because it believes the national broadcaster's management has been corrupted by Microsoft. Protests will be mounted outside Television Centre in London and outside the corporation's Manchester offices on Tuesday, 14 August.
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BBC looks to court online viewers with media player
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The BBC has released a public beta of its own software application for watching video online, hoping to engage younger people who are consuming more of their content over the Internet.
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