The dead­line for respond­ing to this pro­posal was Wednes­day 16^th Sep­tem­ber 2009. Since you are read­ing this after UK office hours on that date, it is prob­a­bly too late for you to have your say. Sorry!

DRM, on My BBC Broad­casts? It’s more likely than you think. </meme>

It’s cit­i­zen power time again folks — and you have about 8 hours! The BBC have applied to Ofcom to include DRM (Dig­i­tal Rights Man­age­ment) encod­ing in their HD broad­casts, at the behest of the con­tent providers. Not only would this reduce licence-payers’ rights to watch what they have funded, but it could also stop open-source TV tuner apps like MythTV from access­ing these sig­nals legally.

Here’s BoingBoing’s page on the sub­ject, and here’s the pro­posal itself (PDF).

If you have a view on this pro­posal, the e-mail address to write to is: Andrew.Dumbreck@ofcom.org.uk.

If you wish to use it for inspi­ra­tion, the con­tents of my e-mail can be found here. Please do not copy it word-for-word, its effec­tive­ness will be greatly reduced if every­one sends the same thing!