CanariesWorld audio commentary and Macs

Response from PTV to my complaint:

"Following the rapid growth of a range of video and stream sharing websites over recent months, a significant volume of content which is
provided on an exclusive basis to subscribers was being made freely available on the Internet. We have to have a solution that will satisfactorily safeguard the content.

This has required us to DRM the content and due to changes made recently we are no longer able to support Apple / Mac products.
Specifically Windows Media Player is longer supported on this platform and likewise IE6.0.

This has been extended to all our sites and services including MatchLive, if you can access the service from a Windows machine
supporting the above products, please do so. If however this is not possible we can offer a refund for unused portion of your
subscription. Please notify us by return if you wish to take this option.

This company has always since our inception provided all of our services through and in conjunction with Internet Explorer and
Windows Media Player. We have invested heavily in this technology along with our customers, all of our content is in this format,
therefore we continued with this platform when introducing a DRM solution for our clients.

At this time there are no plans to move to a different platform."

Posted By: BerlinCanary on March 5th 2007 at 09:55:23

Message Thread

CanariesWorld audio commentary and Macs (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 09:55:23
- Why don't you submit this to Slashdot, digg, or whatever. (NCFC) - yarmyyarmy, Mar 5, 10:28:48
  - Well, I may do (I submitted it to a Mac site at weekend) (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 10:33:04
- So does that imply it doesn't work with Firefox, Opera, etc? (NCFC) - yarmyyarmy, Mar 5, 10:05:09
  - Correct: Windows and IE6+ only (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 10:14:03
    - So where does that leave mac users then, (NCFC) - NCFC4life, Mar 5, 10:16:05
      - In a word: fucked (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 10:19:32
        
        Boot Camp & Parallels both require buying a copy of Windows. (n/m) (NCFC) - butnooneshome, Mar 5, 11:11:42
        
        Yes, of course (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 11:13:51
        
        Here's another possibly solution (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 11:18:11
        
        I've not owned a PC for years and there are none I can remote into. (NCFC) - butnooneshome, Mar 5, 11:27:49
        
        I use Remote Desktop to connect to machines on the office network all the time (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Mar 5, 11:25:39
        
        Yes, we do - that's how I'd do it if I had a work laptop (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 11:33:30
        
        I do feel for you BC, the whole situation sucks. (NCFC) - Arganth, Mar 5, 10:22:31
        
        Well, thanks, Arganth (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 10:27:18
        
        They've done this calculation (NCFC) - yarmyyarmy, Mar 5, 10:26:45
        
        I looked into that (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 10:31:00
        
        right, all sounds a bit techie to me, (NCFC) - NCFC4life, Mar 5, 10:22:07
      - If you hurry you can get a Mac.. (NCFC) - Arganth, Mar 5, 10:16:58
        
        bugger, (NCFC) - NCFC4life, Mar 5, 10:19:09
- sums up the problems with drm (NCFC) - Dave in France, Mar 5, 10:03:40
  - They already have Dave (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 10:10:21
    - Sounds like a job for the club, FA, BBC and Monopolies Commission. (NCFC) - Arganth, Mar 5, 10:12:42
      - it's probably legally sound (NCFC) - Dave in France, Mar 5, 10:14:28
        
        I wonder exactly what the club get from this deal ? (NCFC) - Arganth, Mar 5, 10:16:11
        
        yeah, all champ clubs signed (NCFC) - Dave in France, Mar 5, 10:17:49
        
        I emailed the club too; but haven't had a response yet (n/m) (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 10:20:17
        
        I posted a question on the official board. (n/m) (NCFC) - butnooneshome, Mar 5, 11:15:04
        
        Good (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 11:24:08
        
        No, go for it ... (NCFC) - butnooneshome, Mar 5, 11:32:22
        
        That was a fair time back though. Unless it's a rolling contract. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arganth, Mar 5, 10:19:00
    - have you seen this? (NCFC) - Dave in France, Mar 5, 10:11:55
      - But ... (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Mar 5, 10:13:11
        
        I would also think that if you contacted other clubs... (NCFC) - Arganth, Mar 5, 10:15:01
      - forget that (NCFC) - Dave in France, Mar 5, 10:12:38
        
        I have used Flip4Mac for about a year anyway (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 10:16:00
        
        i suppose things like virtual pc won't help then. (n/m) (NCFC) - Dave in France, Mar 5, 10:18:19
        
        Actually, it may and I can get it from work (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Mar 5, 10:22:50

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