backstage.bbc.co.uk Interview with Mark Taylor, President of the Open Source Consortium and Becky Ho
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Last Friday we were really fortunate to be joined in Broadcast Centre by Mark Taylor, President of the Open Source Consortium and Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group.

We were also joined in the discussion by Robin Doran, Matthew Browning, Jonathan Tweed and Ben Smith - all BBC Staff who are, or were, in some way connected to the development of the iPlayer.

This was a great opportunity for the BBC to hear exactly what the Open Rights Group and the Open Source Consortium wanted to say, and a way for us at the BBC to hopefully talk through some of the more complicated aspects of what is a massive project.

I hope you enjoy it :-)

If you've got any suggestions for further podcasts in this area, or there are questions you feel are not being answered, just drop us a line via the mailing list and we'll sort something out.
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dogStar1000 said: 2 years ago

Its interesting that none of the audience want DRM in iPlayer and, if I understood the comment correctly, the BBC development team included DRM because they were forced to and, perversely, to demonstrate how crap it is. That's +£100m of public money to show that a proprietary technology doesn't work!! I want my license fee back!

VivGriffin said: 2 years ago

If the BBC considers that it is justified in offering services that only a proportion of license payers (who use Microsoft Windows) can use, surely a fairer solution would be to reduce the TV license fee for Linux / MAC users ! Promising to extend these services to other platforms later on is not good enough - as was said in the discussion - "I'll believe it when I see it".

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