FOIA – Internal Review – IR2010026

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Received the attached from the BBC foi team today(they left it right to the limit and required a reminder, maybe they thought I’d forget ;) )
It is interesting that the emails are originally talking about how the BBC could help out the developer “chuck him some cash” but that the eventual step was to force beebplayer to be shut down. 
I think that there is very little chance of getting the information about how the decision to shut down beebplayer was made but I still think the beeb have screwed up. Why not make the streams available and let the community build apps for different platforms? 

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From: “FOI Enquiries” <foi@bbc.co.uk>
Date: 6 September 2010 16:10:31 GMT+01:00
Subject: FOIA – Internal Review – IR2010026

Please find attached the response to your internal review request considered under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. 

Information Policy and Compliance Team 

BBC Freedom of Information
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London W12 7TS, UK

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IR2010026 – dislcoure emails.pdf
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Internal Review Decision Note – 2010-09-02.pdf
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IR2010026 – disclosure – RFI20100948 – final response.pdf
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3 Responses to “FOIA – Internal Review – IR2010026”

  1. Tom Adams
    September 9, 2010 at 12:30 pm

    The redacted name in the third document is mine: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/beebplayerI'm glad you managed to get some emails out of them.

  2. Szlwzl
    September 9, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    Great stuff, nice to meet you!! It was a struggle to get the information and I still think they can release more. Why cut off users such as ourselves that have paid our license fee? Why operate a single platform  client while limiting access from others(favouring Apple for instance)? Why force users to use a proprietory piece of software like flash.

  3. shen_ye
    September 11, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Why force people to use flash when it’s the least stable plugin for a browser on a pc, let alone on a phone.