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

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. But you can use a PVR (Sky+), Media Center, Windows or Mac to record off-air onto a hard drive does, as does using a vi

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

This I feel is one of the main sticking points which leads to the current trends in litigation. Media groups tend to equate a download with a (potential) lost sale. This is just not the case. Many people who download, especially cross borders may discover television from other countries to whic

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

Just incase you all haven't seen it already - This whole thing got Slashdotted - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/1947229&from=rss An anonymous reader writes /"The BBC reports that following approval from the BBC Trust (an independent oversight body) they are now allowed to release

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

James Cridland wrote: This is a splendidly informed debate, incidentally. I'm enjoying it. On 1/31/07, *Stephen Miller* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Media groups tend to equate a download with a (potential) lost sale. This is just not the case. Many peopl

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

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Stephen Miller wrote: [...] If content is available at a fair price globally and simultaneously, the advertising markets and audiences should greatly expand. That could be a sticking point, until we have a single global currency and economy. What might be a fair price in,

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

I agree this is perhaps the main factor against such a proposal. However, the main targets for sales are still Europe and the US for much of the content produced in those markets. As such, distribution systems are likely (rightly or wrongly) to be established for these areas first. Much of my e

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

James Cridland wrote: On 2/1/07, *Stephen Miller* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: What needs to be developed is new distribution systems, not excuses for old methods, nor seeing any form of global market as a problem. If content is available at a fair pri