Stephen Fry Knows The Score

Clearly Stephen is a good deal more geeky than the average punter, but acknowedging that iPlayer streamed content is as good as ripped, even by his dear old mum in the near future, is a bit more enlightened than the beeb itself. We really have to get past this 'protection' mindset.

Similarly, NBC seem confident that Microsoft will restrict tv content playback to purchased video only on their Zune (and one presumes the desktops of millions too). This isn't sounding like progressive digital media to me. [Microsoft to add 'copyright cop' to their Zune DRM [ Link ]

Read the transcript of the Stephen Fry speech