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[LUG] Beeb ignores Linux again?

 

I see the BBC have been given the go ahead for their "watch again" on-demand 
service. Reading the article - 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6607083.stm

shows that only Windows PCs, with Macs to follow later, are supported. The 
system uses DRM of course - which presumably is why we are left out of the 
equation again.

I didn't see that coming when I read the "Memoradum of Understanding" which 
the BBC signed with Micorosft last year - 

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/sep06/09-28MSBBCPR.mspx

(yep, sorry, its a link to Microsofts website)

I wonder how much of my licence fee is being frittered away on such deals?

Mark

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