Speaking of iPlayer, by the way, why is classical music singled out as deserving special protection? Is it because some particularly vociferous second fiddlers went doo-lally when the BBC gave away recordings of Beethoven's symphonies the other year? Or is there a good reason?
It just seems to me that you could level the same argument, about people accumulating a collection of classical music that reduces their buying of CDs and stuff, against things like the cover CD on 'BBC Music' magazine, which always contains decent recordings of complete works that you can keep. If anything, surely having the BBC's orchestras providing good free recordings would *stimulate* the market for classical music, since they would raise awareness of it while leaving money in people's pockets to buy more of it from others. It's not as if the BBC could actually give away recordings of *all* classical music, after all, even if they wanted to. -- Frank Wales [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/[email protected]/
