Re: [backstage] Joost anyone?

2007-01-29 Thread Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]
Thanks for that Libby, much appreciated. Off to play with my new toys now ;-) Cheers - Neil At 12:17 28/01/2007, you wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Robert Kerry wrote: > Email me if you'd like an invite - not sure how many I can give out though. > > :o) > (belatedly) I work for Joost and have a

Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)

2007-01-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29/01/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rights in a limited time-frame and a limited territory to exploit > copyright material: for which wholesale and free copying via > BitTorrent without DRM is wholly unrealistic. "Wholly unrealistic" seems pretty nutty I forwarded my repl

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion que stion (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >C lick and Torrents)

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Butterworth
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew > Somerville > Sent: 29 January 2007 18:39 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion > question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torren

Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billio n question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bi as??? >Click and Torrents)

2007-01-29 Thread Matthew Somerville
Brian Butterworth wrote: Brian Butterworth wrote: Sorry if you didn't get why this is a "backstage" issue, let me explain more carefully. I didn't say any such thing, someone else in the thread did. I don't recall say that YOU did. You were replying to my email, and you wrote "you", as qu

RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Butterworth
(snip) > > > > > > What do you mean by "DOMESTIC sharing" exactly? > > Timeshifting (e.g. family sits down to catch on a programme record > previously) is different from re-distribution (i.e. "sharing"). > The law says "The making in domestic premises for private and domestic use of a recordin

Re: [backstage] Joost anyone?

2007-01-29 Thread Mr I Forrester
More Joost invites anyone? I have a few more invites if anyone is interested? Drop me a personal email Ian Tom Loosemore wrote: On 28/01/07, Libby Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Robert Kerry wrote: > Email me if you'd like an invite - not sure how many I can give ou

Re: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents

2007-01-29 Thread Gordon Joly
At 14:49 + 27/1/07, Brian Butterworth wrote: I'm horrified (again) to see Auntie misrepresenting technologies on >Click "The BBC's flagship technology programme" Both the programme and web page call the sharing of TV programmes using BitTorrent systems 'illegal'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/

Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)

2007-01-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29/01/07, James Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In most cases, the broadcaster has negotiated limited The distributor's "limited" rights have been extended in the opposite direction to where distribution technology has taken us. rights in a limited time-frame and a limited territory t

Re: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC

2007-01-29 Thread Gordon Joly
All tru Brainz has "advanced relationships" to break "Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel" into "paul Simon" and "Art Garfunkel" (bad example I know) And for that matter "Peter Andre and Jordan" into "Peter Andre" and "Jordan" > [http://tinyurl.com/2yxx76] This link is to Amazon.co.uk which

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion que stion (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >C lick and Torrents)

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Butterworth
(snip) > > > The second is the withdrawal of the BBC and ITV (and soon > C4 and Five) > > from using BSkyB's encryption service on satellite, because the EU > > "Television Without Frontiers" directive allows them not to. > > This is related to territorial rights granted by those that > hold

Re: [backstage] Weather RSS feeds broken?

2007-01-29 Thread Iain McWilliams
Thanks, it's now fixed. Regards, Iain Ian Forrester wrote: No thanks for the email, I've passed it on to the weather team Cheers, Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || cubicgarden.com || geekdinner.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beha

Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)

2007-01-29 Thread James Cridland
On 1/29/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not a case of what I think about the law, it is my > understanding of it. > > There is no legal precedent to support your position. > Yours neither. :-) Well there is two precedents. Firstly the BBC took BSB to the high court to s

[backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [b ackstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Butterworth
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew > Somerville > Sent: 29 January 2007 01:14 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: > [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents) > > Brian Bu

RE: [backstage] Weather RSS feeds broken?

2007-01-29 Thread Ian Forrester
No thanks for the email, I've passed it on to the weather team Cheers, Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || cubicgarden.com || geekdinner.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Iain McWilliams Sent: 29 January 2007 08:15 To: backstage@

RE: [backstage] DRM

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Bowden
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cridland Sent: 28 January 2007 22:27 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] DRM On 1/26/07, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROT

[backstage] Weather RSS feeds broken?

2007-01-29 Thread Iain McWilliams
Sorry if this isn't the place to bring this up, but the weather RSS feeds on the BBC weather web site have stopped updating and continue to contain data from 24th/25th January. eg:- http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/id/1769.xml The link is still present on the 5 day weather fore