The cost of the BBC's On Demand proposals (including the iPlayer) are in the public domain anyway as part of our (BBC's) submission to the BBC Trust and the the resulting Public Value Assessment document. Its worth a look. In section 8 "The proposals will cost the BBC an additional £131m over the five-year period 2006/7-
2011/12." http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/pvt_iplayer/ondemandpva.pdf <http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/pvt_iplayer/ondemandpva.pdf> thanks Jem ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Aberdeen Sent: 27 February 2007 13:41 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM? I would like to I would like to know what percentage of my license fee will go towards funding of Seb Potter's employment - so that I can withhold that amount from my payment, or seek a refund of that amount back from the BBC. ;-) Seb Potter wrote: On 27/02/07, Jim Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to know what percentage of my license fee will go towards funding the proposed iPlayer services which are only to be made available to people stupid enough to be using Windows - so that I can withhold that amount from my payment, or seek a refund of that amount back from the BBC. If anyone knows a reliable way of working out this figure, please discuss. This is just my personal opinion, and not that of my employer. Are you a BT customer? If so, you could try to demand a refund of the part of your line rental that goes towards providing phone boxes for those people that don't own a mobile, or towards provision of telephone services in rural areas for those that don't live in a city. Pay council tax? Why not ask for a refund for provision of social services to those people that require social services. Pay income tax? All those people that don't have jobs or need medical care or use any of the thousands of public services that you don't. You could cut your payments down to only those services you use. If you're actually interested in protesting in a productive manner, you could join the public consultation and raise the issue of platform independence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open_consultations/ondemand_services.html.
