Neil Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As a license payer, and thus a funder of the BBC, I am keen to see > the BBC move towards covering costs as much as possible by re-using > free to listen/view content from the home market and re-sell it > abroad wherever a market may exist. To view the issue as one of > people's "right" to download content forgets that any "right" that > may exist is bounded by the UKs national boundaries, and that > listeners and viewers outside of these borders are not paying twice > for content, they are paying once.
As a licence payer, and thus funder of the BBC, I am keen to be able to get what I've paid for once already without paying for it again. I believe that it's my view, not yours, that will keep the BBC a free and funded organization with the kind of editorial freedom it has now. If things go your way I would expect people to say "if it's so commercially successfull why can't it be privatized?" and I don't believe there is a compelling answer to that. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - 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/[email protected]/
