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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to urge the BBC not to use DRM or propriety formats, but to instead use free formats. More details
Submitted by Benjamin Tomos Lewis – Deadline to sign up by: 15 December 2007 – Signatures: 163
More details from petition creator
Currently the BBC make their web content available in two, propriety, formats: WMA and Real Audio. The BBC are now proposing to use DRM technology. This will unnecessarily encumber listeners and viewers. Further, the BBC's use of propriety formats make listening to or watching BBC content unnecessarily difficult on platforms such as GNU/Linux and hinder its adoption. We therefore urge the Prime Minister to encourage the BBC to use free formats such as Ogg Vorbis.
Current signatories
Benjamin Tomos Lewis, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- John Beisley
- Neil Jones
- Sam Davies
- Anisa Chowdhury
- Adrian Godfrey
- Loz Pycock
- Andrew Main
- Richard Ablitt
- Steve Cotton
- I Sutherland
- David Allsopp
- John Wilson
- John Talbot
- Guy Johnston
- Paul Yeo
- Frustrated Citizen
- Jonathan Platts
- J Lyons
- Vanessa Trentham
- Ros Coles
- Simon Whiteley
- Robert Barry
- Nicola Pero
- Paul Henshall
- Stephen Page
- Alexander Smith
- Sebastian Latwiel
- Adam Coates
- Karl E. Jorgensen
- Stephen Latimer
- paul smith
- Andrew Briggs
- S.Pegrum
- James Harmsworth Cowles
- Graeme Winter
- Peter Da'Costa
- John Dow
- Sava Slijepcevic
- Fiona Jarvis
- Colin Kong
- John de Mattos
- Malcolm Christie
- Josh Smith
- Sean Kelly
- Peter Freeman
- Mike Anderson
- David Gleeson
- Matthew Hardy
- Robert Whittaker
- Alastair Warren
- Peter Chynoweth
- Daniel Bond
- John Langham-Service
- Martin Woolley
- Antony David Jones
- Vijay Chopra
- Norman Mccutcheon
- Henry Somers-Hall
- Ben Rogers
- Mark Adams
- James Marsall
- Toby Smithe
- Alistair McDonald
- Jason Lane
- Matthew Wood
- John Hope
- Wayne Stallwood
- Clive Jones
- Martin Garton
- Anze Slosar
- David Crafti
- P. Cattani
- Ben Webster
- Simon Tideswell
- Barney Gale
- Tony Higgins
- Lee Packham
- Stuart Johnson
- Tom Holland
- Jonathan Pritchard
- Umapathy Subburam
- Jon Grant
- Edward Chidgey
- Marko Daniel
- Julian Togelius
- William Forbes
- Loris Caren
- Stephen Carr
- Douglas Steel
- Peter Campion-Bye
- Richard Chamberlain
- David Weir
- Stuart Brown
- Andy Jefferson
- Christopher Brewster
- Joe Burmeister
- Alexander Baxevanis
- Jonathan Robinson
- Xan Williams
- Joel Garabedian
- Simon Davy
- Peter Clart
- Ralph Sleigh
- Marcus Granado
- Keith Misson
- Andrew Marlow
- Fraser Kirkpatrick
- Simon O'Regan
- Jason Lucas
- Vijay Mahrra
- Stephen Smith
- Ian Mackenzie
- Adam Sheppard
- Rob Pearson
- Jonathan Roadley-Battin
- Richard Blundell
- Mark Robinson
- Mark Pearson
- Adam Russell
- Fahad Khan
- Robert Pearce
- S.R.Sutherland
- Alistair Gunn
- Christopher Staite
- Matthew James Roberts
- Joshua Roe
- Mark Evans
- Michael Trim
- Gordon Mitchell
- Gavin Dold
- Ivan Teblyashkin
- Mark Ford
- Steven Gibson
- martin goldstone
- Peter Raines
- Ben Houghton
- Crispin Cooper
- Robert Valkass
- Ken Wong
- Anthony Rushton
- Rick Moynihan
- Tom Coates
- Theresa Brown, Edinburgh
- Richard Craig
- Sam Smith
- James Wilson
- Derek Wiltshire
- Greg Cheasman
- J R Burns
- Eric Davey
- Jonathan Neal
- Mlys Morgan
- Sam Woodhead
- Steve Barker
- Jai Harrison
- Stuart Ward
- Tim Jones
- Matthew Sims
- Timothy Sherlock
- PK Dhande
- Geoffrey Sisson
- Steve Hemingway
