On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Andrew Bowden wrote:
No it doesn't. But lets imagine that the UK TV system was being designed right now... What do you think a popular request would be?
You mean "content protection". The thing is, the BBC currently *is* in the process of designing what will become the UK TV system, and the BBC is trying to build "content protection" into it.
What though of the public's fair dealing rights? The public explicitly has a number of rights, e.g. to right to make copies for private study, or for educational/research purposes, or to re-use small portions of a work for critical purposes, etc - an inexhaustive list.
The systems the BBC is designing today, which may well become the future systems for TV delivery, do NOT make any provision for the public to exercise these rights. The BBC today appears to be engaged in building systems which are beholden to commercial, corporate interests, given the BBC deliberately is building in technical measures which try rob the public of their ability to exercise these long held rights. The only public interest that has been given consideration by the BBC, we know from public documents and statements, is the "right" for the public to have access to as much commercial material as possible - which of course requires "content protection".
Personally, I really don't think its in the BBCs' long term interests to go down this path of giving commercial interests such strong weighting. But hey.
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