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The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld)The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld)Posted Jul 13, 2005 16:20 UTC (Wed) by epeeist (guest, #1743)In reply to: The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld) by allesfresser Parent article: The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld)
They did actually use Ogg for a while. Not sure whether stuff is still available in this format from their site. Given a couple of articles I have seen recently, firstly on the music industry berating the BBC for allowing downloads of Beethoven symphonies and a second giving details of the BBC's Linux usage. It would seem that the BBC might just be a friend to FOSS.
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The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld) Posted Jul 13, 2005 16:29 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] I fully believe there's some people at the BBC that want to do the right thing and provide their content to everyone in a free and unencumbered format (since they're a government-supported institution, that's their duty, after all..at least to British taxpayers, if no one else.) I hope they are able to prevail in their efforts. I'd be writing my MPs and anyone else I could find that might help if I were a British citizen (to support these people's efforts), as I really and truly appreciate the BBC's coverage. US 'journalists' could take (quite a bit more than) a few lessons from them...
The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld) Posted Jul 13, 2005 22:44 UTC (Wed) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link] There are indeed 'good people' at the beeb. Unfortunately they have to deal with our government (in order to retain their mandate to charge us all ~GBP 100 each), and the govt is not at all happy about their ideas of free distribution, such as the mooted archive. An MP recently berated them for the archive project as it meant they were 'giving away stuff they should be charging money for'. These are no doubt the same MPs who are pushing for copyright extensions in the UK so that Sir Mick Jagger and Sir Paul McCartney can get even richer. They clearly don't 'get it'. (We paid for the beeb once - thier unusual business model allows them to distribute unencumbered formats; indeed we should all be compaining bitterly if they don't distribute unencumbered stuff).
I've seen demos of dirac at recent Linux shows in London and it does look pretty good. It is targeted as HDTV resolutions/transmission, which may be slightly different from Theora - I don't know.
(Trivia: and I wandered round a Finnish Fortress today with Rebecca Sobol of LWN (at Debconf5)).
The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld) Posted Jul 13, 2005 17:05 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] The proponents of software patents and DRM aren't "giving away" media playing software just so that Bono will hang out with them. The master plan for ventures such as iTunes Music Store only works if the New Middlemen cooperate with the old-line copyright holders long enough to become a critical part of the pipeline, then stab them in the back at the right time.
The long-term interests of any old-line copyright holder lie with the side whose success doesn't depend on replacing them. For the BBC, dealing with the patenteers is like Borland and WordPerfect doing office suites for Microsoft Windows.
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