Tim Cowlishaw wrote:
Hmm.. It's great that people are actively resisting this, but to
reiterate a point made earlier on the Open Rights Group list
concerning the iPlayer petition on pm.gov.uk <http://pm.gov.uk>, is
this really the best forum for protest? IMO the idea that the PM (or
any branch of government) should step in to legislate what should and
should not be shown on television is a slightly scary prospect....
You would think the market would decide. Seeing as Pay DTT has been one
failure after another, I have to wonder why Sky would really want to get
involved in Pay DTT, especially when it would be incompatible with every
DTT receiver out there (so they'd have to subsidize boxes, something
that worked so well for ON Digital). If it's anything like the "Sky By
Wire" service on Homechoice, it'll be overpriced compared to the DSAT
offerings, so I doubt many Freeviewers will be tempted. And if they did
offer it for a reasonable price, they might start cannibalizing their
DSAT viewers.
Anyway, aren't Ofcom the people to complain to about this and not the
online petitions site (which, as the recent road charging and ID card
petitions has shown, doesn't appear to influence anything anyway)?
Scot
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