[Upd-discuss] 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=EN&sessionno=


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

    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	Magnus Grander -- EU should support software/OS made in EU.
Linux issuch thing. So support it and not rubbish americanbuggy
crap.
3977	Yann Aker -- "We cannot support Linux" or "Wedo'nt want to
support Linux" ????
3976	Noims Rooney
3975	Jouni 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	Anton Lindström
3973	Alessandro Lombardi
3972	Matti Virkkunen -- I believe such government documents
should beaccessible by everyone, not only people who canand are
willing to pay for proprietary software.
3971	Andy Goossens
3970	rik fonteijn -- All information that concern all European
Citizenshould be open for all of them. All of them meansnot only
Windows & Mac
3969	T. Veltman
3968	Brice Dethier
3967	Cedric Lambert
3966	Rytis
3965	Carlos Gómez Espí -- La información procedente de
nuestrasinstituciones no puede estar reservada sólo ausuarios de
ciertos sistemas operativos no libres
3964	Jeroen van Bergen -- Limiting access to information is not
exactly theway to build confidence.
3963	Frederik Himpe
3962	Daryl Oosten
3961	Daniel Löb
3960	Pablo Arias Vilaboa
3959	Jonathan Baker-Bates
3958	Paul te Bokkel -- Locking public information into a
proprietaryformat is not about freedom, it's aboutincompetance.
3957	Per Losenborg
3956	Matthew Lamb
3955	Jürgen Zornig -- Fällt mir nichts dazu ein, einfach
unglaublichwie unkompetent die EU Kollegen sind
3954	Roland Trique -- Les formats libres et ouverts existent.
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