Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

anyone else just a teensy bit unhappy at the thought of your tv license money funding a DRM "arms race" instead of programmes ?

once the programme has been broadcast then it is in the public domain, look at all the people with digital TV with integrated DVD recorders who can make broadcast quality copies with no DRM and associated built in 30 day deletion

so once it's broadcast it's "out there", copyright or no, therefore adding DRM to downloadable versions of the same program is just a teensy bit pointless, a bit of a waste of license payers money and has sparked a conflict between hackers and the BBC that will only escalate and cost yet more license payers money

I have to admit I was expecting the L*nux version of the iPlayer to be released before it's DRM came under attack, however I'm not surprised it has happened already