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DefectiveByDesign: London and Manchester Calling
British readers be warned: the Free Software Foundation's Defective by Design campaign is coming to our side of the pond tomorrow in protest at the BBC's decision to make extensive use of DRM (and in particular MIcrosoft's DRM) in their beta iPlayer software. For those who are unaware of the iPlayer, the BBC is making its programmes available for 'catch-up' via the iPlayer - albeit only for 7 days after download.
The issue is certainly an interesting (and contentious) one, particularly as the BBC is a publicly-funded body so has to make the iPlayer platform neutral at some point in the future, and will only allow U.K. IP addresses access to the content. The protests are outside the BBC's London and Manchester studios tomorrow (Tuesday 14th August), with Download Squad paying the London gathering a visit.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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TipsoSaurus said 12:39PM on 8-13-2007
Can we expect a video of your visit???
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Nik Fletcher said 3:38PM on 8-13-2007
Tiposaurus,
There won't be any video, but there will definitely be photos!
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hazard said 11:54PM on 8-13-2007
I'd say it's less about corruption and more about ignorance and people sticking to what they know. Really the best outcome for Microsoft would have been to implement the player with Sliverlight.
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SB Streater said 9:24AM on 8-15-2007
I have made a video of the event!
http://clesh.com/videos/view/BBCsdemo-1187166661.can/
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