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From: Glenn Dowling
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:18

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"Peter Webb" <webbfamily@DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote:
> I would imagine that they have chosen a different encoding format and 
> proprietary viewer to stop (or limit) other people from re-packaging and 
> re-publishing ABC content as their own. Insofar as the ABC owns the content 
> they are distributing for free, this seems quite reasonable. This cannot be 
> done with mpeg or any non-proprietary video format that I know of, hence the 
> need for a proprietary format.

Except that using flash format does not provide this either. There are 
programs out there to convert flash to other file formats (although they do 
require flash to be on the system, so this is not a solution to netvegetable's 
problem).

And when have you ever heard of people doing this with their existing service 
anyway?

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Subject: Re: Open letter to ABC
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:18:19 +1000
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