[Ecommerce] EU Council Video Streams for GNU/Linux: Illegal

[Seth Johnson]

The video stream page for the Council of the European Union:
> http://ceuweb.belbone.be/index.php?lang=3DEN&sessionno=3D


>From their FAQ:
> http://ceuweb.belbone.be/faq.php?lang=3DEN

    The live streaming media service of the Council of the
    European Union can be viewed on Microsoft Windows and
    Macintosh platforms. We cannot support Linux in a legal way.
    So the answer is: No support for Linux.


A petition (for EU folks; just homing in on 4,000 as I post):
> http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody


Platform independent solution to watch "Streaming Service of the
Council of the European Union."

Created by Stefan Esterer on December 29th, 2006 at 4:37 pm AST


The "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union"
should be available for everybody and not only for Mac and MS
Windows users.

Change the service in that way, that also linux/bsd/.. user can
use it.

One Solution would be to use the free theora codec for the
videos.

Most Recent Signatures:

3978=09Magnus Grander -- EU should support software/OS made in EU.
Linux issuch thing. So support it and not rubbish americanbuggy
crap.
3977=09Yann Aker -- "We cannot support Linux" or "Wedo'nt want to
support Linux" ????
3976=09Noims Rooney
3975=09Jouni Kaukonen -- WMV is not the only option, you are
supportingmicrosoft monopoly. Hire some competentIT-personel.
Check out www.theora.org
It's very sad, if you can't even do asimple thing like this
right.
3974=09Anton Lindstr=F6m
3973=09Alessandro Lombardi
3972=09Matti Virkkunen -- I believe such government documents
should beaccessible by everyone, not only people who canand are
willing to pay for proprietary software.
3971=09Andy Goossens
3970=09rik fonteijn -- All information that concern all European
Citizenshould be open for all of them. All of them meansnot only
Windows & Mac
3969=09T. Veltman
3968=09Brice Dethier
3967=09Cedric Lambert
3966=09Rytis
3965=09Carlos G=F3mez Esp=ED -- La informaci=F3n procedente de
nuestrasinstituciones no puede estar reservada s=F3lo ausuarios de
ciertos sistemas operativos no libres
3964=09Jeroen van Bergen -- Limiting access to information is not
exactly theway to build confidence.
3963=09Frederik Himpe
3962=09Daryl Oosten
3961=09Daniel L=F6b
3960=09Pablo Arias Vilaboa
3959=09Jonathan Baker-Bates
3958=09Paul te Bokkel -- Locking public information into a
proprietaryformat is not about freedom, it's aboutincompetance.
3957=09Per Losenborg
3956=09Matthew Lamb
3955=09J=FCrgen Zornig -- F=E4llt mir nichts dazu ein, einfach
unglaublichwie unkompetent die EU Kollegen sind
3954=09Roland Trique -- Les formats libres et ouverts existent.
Lesmauvais pr=E9textes n'ont pas lieud'=EAtre.