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The BBC Director General, Mark Thomson, is interrogated by House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, over why they wasted over 130 million UKP on the iPlayer.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: January 21, 2008 at 8:00 am
Author: Homer101010

Length: 00:08:07
Rating: 4.76
Views: 3072

Tags: BBC Microsoft iPlayer Corruption DRM defectivebydesign

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xTROJANxX (December 7, 2008 at 1:31 am)

hilarious. erm erm uh uh piece of crap- could of used torrents ffs

DaisyBarrass1950 (November 5, 2008 at 5:56 pm)

Why ca?n't BBC bods speak plain English?

Keruaran (August 31, 2008 at 10:59 am)

Who is paying their wage ? Microsoft or the taxpayer ?

If they love working for Microsoft's interests so much, give them their marching orders and tell them to apply for a job at Microsoft.

JeekTheOtherOne (August 29, 2008 at 1:17 pm)

the Iplayer is so c**p, wetha it cost £20m or £130m thats r hard earned money bein nicked of us by thse b*****ds thru r tv licences, hav u seen how much those f*****s cost? TOO MUCH, da bbc is s'pose 2 b a democracy ruled by da brit public e.g. if we say we wanna c such n such we are s'pose to get it (being the 1s that fund them) bt now they go n spend r money on ths shit, a service 4 peep who cant get nuff tele.. on tele so they need it online 2!!!, now frm 25/6/08 thy makin a new version CRAP!

horneyvirus (June 28, 2008 at 2:12 am)

Fuck these bastards.

philmax9 (June 2, 2008 at 5:30 pm)

Good work fella check out my Mark Thompson vid - I might with your permission nick some of your film to add ti yt um ah err um ahh

GegoXaren (May 17, 2008 at 3:29 pm)

if they are for availability why not use theora?

Homer101010 (May 17, 2008 at 3:43 pm)

Or better yet, the BBC's /own/ Free codec, "Dirac".

It amazes me the the Beeb would spend all that money; effort; and skill developing an advanced coded like Dirac, then piss it all away on Microsoft Slopware ... at the British taxpayers' expense too!

Unbelievable.

Unbelievably Corrupt.

pooh1234567890 (May 13, 2008 at 9:57 am)

What the hell is this guy doing running a £4bn corporation, madness.

Homer101010 (April 13, 2008 at 5:50 pm)

MSBBC's "work" to make content available for the iPhone, consisted of adding an MP4 profile to their transcoding workflow, and adding the links to their website. It must've taken them all of 5 minutes.

Certainly this means I can now view the content on Linux, although the MSBBC brand me as a "pirate" and a "hacker" for doing so (their definition of "hacker" being "following URLs and downloading the files those URLs point to"), even though they're quite happy to take my money in TV license tax.

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