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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kirk Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:45 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Archive trial I just received an e-mail which seemed to confirm I was part of the trial - excerpt: We'll e-mail you your account details in just a few weeks and then you'll have access to hundreds of hours of programmes. :D! On 19/04/07, Matthew Cashmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It¹ll take a few weeks I would imagine before you¹ll hear much the list is > getting blasted at the moment as you¹d expect! > > I¹ll post up more information as I know it. > > m > > > On 19/4/07 15:53, "Paul Jefferson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you know when we will hear if we are in or not? (Or is the fact that > I've > > not heard mean I'm not in?) > > Paul (Long Time Lurker) > > > > > > On 19/04/07, James Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On 19 Apr 2007, at 14:39, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote: > >> > >>> > James Cox wrote: > >>> > > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and > >>>> >> gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking > >>>> >> up into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery > >>>> >> to have certified users (ie, license fee payers ;)) only which > >>>> >> would permit some kind of higher bandwidth product. > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > I've never really felt comfortable with distributed P2P for content > >>> > that I've paid for. It's great when bittorrent is used for > >>> > transfering ubuntu iso's around (as it's members of a community > >>> > helping others in the same community), it's less great but at least > >>> > makes some sense when it's used for piracy (as it's still a members > >>> > of a community helping other members in a community, all be it an > >>> > illicit one) but when it comes to content that I'm paying somebody > >>> > to send to me, I don't see why I should waste my upload bandwith > >>> > for someone else's business model. Even with content from the BBC, > >>> > I pay the licence fee so why should I pay in bandwidth as well? > >>> > > >> > >> Fair enough, but i love the fact I can grab an ISO or ... er... > >> certain content very rapidly using the P2P model. Since I pay a flat > >> rate anyhow, and i've got loads of upload bandwidth to use, I'm not > >> that fussed. :) > >> > >> - james > >> - > >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk <http://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/ > >> > > > > > _______________________ > Matthew Cashmore > Development Producer > > BBC Future Media & Technology, Research and Innovation > BC4B5, Broadcast Centre, Media Village, W12 7TS > > T: 020 8008 3959 (02 83959) > M: 07711 913241 (072 83959) > > -- Gary Kirk - 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/ - 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/
