Why the BBC will never distribute DRM-free TV programmes
As a public service, and because this sort of
intelligent contribution to the public debate is what
blogging should strive to be, here is a link to Mr
Betteridge's superb post entitled Why the BBC will never distribute
DRM-free TV programmes. Thoroughly,
thoroughly worth the read, and though he is, I
believe from his writing, an advocate of
liberalising the intellectual property laws,
it's not a Doctorow-style rant, and
addresses the reality of the system in which the
world does business. Cory might well have
valuable things to say, but he has never managed
to convince me that he's not simply a dangerous
alloy of wide-eyed dreamer and
stickin'-in-to-the-man zealot.
