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Story: Digital rights mismanagement

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Trust the Trust

Do you realise, or have you quietly forgotten that DRM, and all the other restrictions that are mentioned in the article are there by the instruction of The BBC Trust, the Government imposed group of people that recently replaced the Board of Governors. The Trust is there to represent the interest of the BBC License payers, more commonly known as the British public. The Trust has to approve every major policy decision that the BBC makes. A process that can take several months to complete. A typical case of decision by committee.

Look at the example of BBC Jam, the proposed (and now suspended) on line educational service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press_releases/14_03_2007.html

Your comments may be valid, but perhaps you should aim them at the BBC Trust instead of the BBC itself.

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