Stop the European Parliament TV

Considering that the website of the Television of the European Parliament:

  1. forces citizens to buy a computer running a recent Microsoft Operating system or a recent Apple Macintosh;
  2. forces citizens to use closed source, proprietary, and patented formats and protocols such as Microsoft Windows Media, Adobe Flash or MPEG4;
  3. excludes users of computers with ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, m68k, SPARC processors;
  4. excludes users of operating systems such as Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, GNU/Linux, OS/2, AIX, Solaris, OS/390, UNIX/BSD, Nokia Symbian, Google Android, or MAC OS 9.

Asks the European Parliament to:

  1. stop immediately the European Parliament TV unless all citizens of Europe are not discriminated by the technology, notably by paying royalties to patent holders;
  2. stop immediately using formats such as Microsoft Windows Media, Adobe Flash or MPEG4;
  3. invest in free standards for video streaming and video format;
  4. provide all audio and video recordings in a royalty-free video format, such as OGG Vorbis;
  5. provide all audio and video recordings over royalty-free protocols, such as HTTP and FTP.