Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Library: Free Video on Demand

Some libraries have begun offering free movies and TV shows through a new service by PermissionTV. You can check out one library's implementation here. It's still in beta, but there are some annoyances:

1. You have to have Windows Media Player 9 or above installed with "the most recent DRM security update."
2. No Mac support.

I imagine that #2 will eventually be fixed, but I don't have a lot of hope for #1. Why, oh, why offer free services and then destroy them with DRM and inferior media players?

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