2010-04-26, 12:47
edz2k9 Wrote:That's more to do with the ridiculous over reactions of content "owners" putting pointless hurdles in place that do nothing to stop commerical infringement but stifles profit-free development since the authors want to play by "the rules".
As with the internet in general, now the big corporations are trumpeting convergence you can expect them to use any and all legal stupidity to take away peoples work which was available for free, cripple it and rebox it for their own ends.
XBMC Iplayer is a perfect example / victim of all this.
This is a succinct synopsis of a growing problem the internet is facing. Sad but true, you might say.
Now we're out of the early days and even the average person is guaranteed to be a member of at least four or five different sites, and big businesses - snail slow to adapt to new things as ever - has finally found a several profitable ways to exploit the users, we're going to see a lot of our favourite features homogenised, sanatised and otherwise compromised.
Another case in point is the iPhone - look how Apple have monopolised that. They reserve the right to trash people who develop apps for it, and have shunned Flash support, and because there's still plenty of money being made they can get away with it.
Trust big business to take the fun out of it, eh?