>From P Edwards (Monday, November 27, 2006 11:19 PM): > I think it is pretty laughable :-) > > I am very happy to pay for quality and expensive programming, > but being censored from the same, just because of a legal > precedent, is almost the ultimate insult, especially if one > does have a UK TV license. > In my hallucination, it should take one person within > Auntie's legal department about a month to change the > contracts for content production, add some budget for servers > and bandwidth, to make the biggest change to how the BBC > works since radio gave way to black and white TV.
Probably less time, but I guess the problems isn't that the Beeb can't find the time for contract-updating. I imagine every recording has associated contracts and releases, and often after the initial broadcast and an agreed number of re-broadcastings, the artist release evaporates, and the rights revert to the performers. > I can hear the voices of resistance still. There is absolutely no reason not > to.... Hosting all that media, not to mention distributing it at a reasonable rate, is not going to be cheap. > So where exactly did all this "locking out" and streaming > certain content to certain places come from? Big brother? :-) It certainly annoyed me when in Cologne: I could watch Planet Earth but not the website. On the other hand, I would be more annoyed if, after paying my TV Tax/Licence, I couldn't watch the website because the bandwidth is consumed by people outside the UK who don't pay for it. Maybe that's selfish of me :) > How about leading the way with both feet in to a new world of > a really universal BBC on the net, with none of the > boundaries? The opposite to the TV world. To be fair, it is the British Broadcasting Corporation, not Universal ;) Flippant, but I do think that it is not the job of the British Broadcasting Corporation to be addressing the world (save the World Service, World news channel): rather, shouldn't Auntie be taking care of broadcasting to the British people? > I'm sure that a way could be programmed to reverse Psiphon or > the like, with something like real-time P2P to distribute the > feeds via a massive server of "trusted" associates, now that > would be exciting. Doesn't P2P tend to distribute the lowest common denominator? So it'd still be hard to find my little history documentaries online. > I'll pay and deliver, how's that? I hope that the future is > MAC addresses, not IP's. It's much easier to spoof a MAC address than an IP address, though. Lee "I rather like Mark Thompson" Goddard Not a BBC Employee.... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
