Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC's DRM Iplayer windows only

[Rob Myers]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 17:54 +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
> > > I think there's actually three things at play here:
> > >
> > >      1. whether or not the player is free software;
> > >      2. whether or not the video codecs are free software;
> > >      3. whether or not the BBC use DRM.
> > >
> > > At the moment, 1, 2, & 3 are all 'not'. 1 is pretty trivial imho, and
> > > not really worth worrying about.
> > 1 would obviate 2 and 3...
>
> In what way? Modern player software has virtually nothing to do with the
> actual data consumed. Likewise, if the data has a free codec, who cares
> if the BBC player is proprietary, since it's then easily replaceable.

Yes you're right. I misunderstood the relationship between the freedom 
of the codec and the freedom of the player wrapper. I was reading 
"player" as "entire stack" rather than just "front end". My apologies.

- Rob.