Petitions have long been sent to the Prime Minister by post or delivered to the Number 10 door in person. You can now both create and sign petitions on this website too, giving you the opportunity to reach a potentially wider audience and to deliver your petition directly to Downing Street. The e-petitions system launched in November 2006. A new petition is now online:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to prevent the BBC from making its iPlayer on-demand television service available to Windows users only, and instruct the corporation to provide its service for other operating systems also.
The BBC plans to launch an on-demand tv service which uses software that will only be available to Windows users. The BBC should not be allowed to show commercial bias in this way, or to exclude certain groups of the population from using its services. The BBC say that they provide ‘services for everyone, free of commercial interests and political bias’. Locking the new service’s users into Microsoft Windows whilst ignoring those members of society who use other operating systems should does not fit in with the BBC’s ethos and should not be allowed.
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Ask the BBC make upcoming iPlayer on-demand service Mac compatible – February 01, 2007
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I’ve signed.
God shave the Queen!
Tally-Ho!
So far 967 signatures. Expats can sign remember!
Signed
“If I should die, think only this of me,
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.”
P.S. .. and bury me with my Mac computers.
i hope this has a more positive effect than the road toll charging one did
Me too (needless to say).
There’s over a thousand already, and it runs till August.
If they don’t, react we can storm Broadcasting House and slaughter the buggers!
Good riddance!
Whoops! Got the comma wrong.
Any petition is elevated in status by use of the word ‘whilst’.
The fact that the Beeb cops Apple’s “I” theme for their iPlayer, then won’t support Macs is shameful.
Support the Mac, or come up with your own original name…
Everyone should bombard Microsoft with a blitzkrieg of emails calling it nasty names for its Third Reich takeover of the BBC.
We ought to start another petition about the wretched NHS.
The online booking system won’t work with Macs…
… when I rang up to complain, I pointed out that a ‘minority’ was being excluded. How would they react, I went on, if their website excluded all, say, Muslims? They spluttered, then promised to conduct a full review….
… still waiting.
… as I am for the hospital appointment.
England, we kicked your ass before and we can do it again.
Just passed 1061 — but we need more.
If Blair & Co can ignore 1.7 million motorists, then a few Macusers ain’t gonna cross their radar…
just wondering if anyone has noticed that channel 4’s on demand thing doesn’t work with macs either… i’ve signed this one but for me channel 4 has more programs that i watch, so the on demand thing being non-mac is really annoying. whos for making another one to get channel 4 to add mac support??
MW: ‘idea’ as in ‘now thats an idea, why not do it, how hard can it f***ing be?
Signed.
Unfortunately Tony Blair has ignored all e-petitions so far.
The results of the ‘ban DRM’ one are predictable:
“DRM does not only act as a policeman through technical protection measures, it also enables content companies to offer the consumer unprecedented choice in terms of how they consume content, and the corresponding price they wish to pay.” — Tony Blair
Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37785
what about the Canadians?
we have the Queens face on our money…
Why should anyone visiting the BBC site, no matter where they are, have to suffer the BBC’s lack of compatability issues? If there’s the potential for an increase in readership/viewership by doing this (and there’s not really any reason to believe otherwise), they’re only losing money every day by dragging their feet. Their loss.
Done. I live in Oz but hold a british passport. The decline of the BBC is a sad thing to watch…
Signed and done!
Let’s hope Tony Blair does something about it!
Signed.
I sometimes wonder whether the BBC has become MS’s poodle.
@Aunty is a Bitch says, “Everyone should bombard Microsoft with a blitzkrieg of emails calling it nasty names for its Third Reich takeover of the BBC.”
Just for saying that I would gladly throw my considerable financial wealth behind you in the next ministerial elections, or however that works GB. That is to say, if I actually had any financial wealth I would do all of the above.
This is what really cracks my edge, with apparent impunity MS pulls this kind of crap.
@Mr Peabody
Dont bitch on here – bitch to the BBC by lodging a complaint. As long as you use reasonable language it will be considered. And remember that the people reviewing your complaint are not the people who signed the deal with Microsoft.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint_step1.shtml
Check the box for a reply. You may have to go back through this process if you get a silly reply, which seems to be par for the course. But it is worth it…