The BBC is, after all, going to DRM stuff it distributes over the internets. Weird decision really, since they don’t DRM it went transmitted any other way. Still, it’ll keep UKNova in business. They seem to have everything the BBC ever made, unDRMed in nice friendly torrent format.
The choice of Windows Media format is just as irksome, as it works pretty poorly on free platforms, because Microsoft won’t license it for free linux players. Thay means the players have to utilise clean-room reverse engineering and all sorts of horrible hacks (like copying DLLs from windows boxes onto your computer) to decrypt them. It’s all amazingly lame when there are perfectly good open video formats available.
Boo BBC, you have failed.
Ah yes, the BBC. I read their news web site nearly everyday. Despite running a fairly standard Microshod set up I have never managed to watch more than one and a half of their video stories before it freezes and refuses to show any more video. Pretty poor for a broadcast company.