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I predict that devoted BBC customers will install the new software because it will be required for BBC content, but widespread adoption will likely be limited to this select group. The BBC already missed the distribution boat, as did Real, when they both failed to convince PC manufacturers to bundle their technology with the EU?s butchered version of Windows XP. Other serious commercial efforts to stream video across the Internet will be based on video solutions that implement strong digital rights management (DRM) technologies. As any technologically savvy reader already knows, the open-source community is very much against DRM. Why? Because it means they can?t share content protected by copyright.