With regards to EULAs, I think we all saw from the Sony DRM 'incident' that EULAs have been ruled virtually unenforceable. I'm prepared to seed content I've downloadd whilst it's downloading, and maybe seed it for a little while afterwards, but I'm much less generous than when I'm torrenting because the content will always be available from the BBC servers, and we are paying for this service after all.
Here's hoping that the BBC takes onboard the suggestions from people like me with regards to the ability to control whether your client seeds content once you've downloaded it... Here's hoping the Kontiki client can actually be configured to do so! I foresee ISPs enforcing QoS for upload data from Kontiki so that it slows to a crawl as a way around this... But that won't be after a whole load of huge bills from providers to customers, along with the associated uproar and a few months of in-circles discussion as to how the best way to proceed to counter-act this unwanted behaviour will be. Maybe the Beeb WILL just drop Kontiki eventually and do what BBC America is doing, using Vuze as their CDN and just keeping the DRM backend for the geoip authorisation? (as has been mentioned before)... It's starting to look more and more like that viable solution for the interim! > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Cobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 July 2007 13:17 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] Kontiki Backlash > > That IS funny, but how many folks ever ever read the t's and > c's? I know I don't: http://www.eff.org/wp/eula.php and > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000892.html > > S. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Bowyer > Sent: 30 July 2007 12:51 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] Kontiki Backlash > > On 30/07/07, James Bridle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > > The software runs without your knowledge, although you > agree to this > > in the terms and conditions. > > Splorf! > > -- > Peter Bowyer > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > 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/ - 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/
