On 14/02/07, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Do you mean to imply that rightsholders have been approached with
> tales of "Was fantastic, but had to limit it to a couple of hundred
> people within the BBC. Was a bit too popular for their own good" and
> they turned it down?
not *exactly*...
:-D
the 'it was too popular for its own good' refers to
various local radio stations having their bandwidth soaked up due to
people downloading stuff... not good for business, that...
lol
haveever, i demo'd it to many people over the past couple of years,
from BBC Governors/Directors down, that if I get such a 100%
broadcast-powered automatic system knocked together for Not Much Cash,
then (almost) anyone can....
Again, as Brian probed during the podcast, at what point would the BBC
start suing people - would someone knocking such a system up face
legal action?
it ran for the first few weeks from a
greenhouse in someone's back garden near Ascot.
Magic :-)
getting this built was fun too...
http://gigaom.com/2005/08/16/bbc-builds-a-monster-tivo/
:-)
"However, there might be some legal (and copyright) issues around this
in the US, whereas BBC can get away with it, because it owns much of
the content."
The irony!
Also, seeing the comments on the DRM podcast in the blogosphere, I
thought this post on Ben Metcalfe's blog was especially noteworthy:
"Sofia was watching this documentary via SVT's (Swedish national
broadcaster) official video-on-demand website, which makes most of
it's programming available for anyone to watch. Not only was she able
to view the program outside of Sweden, here in San Francisco, but it
was available in a high bitrate and the whole series was available in
one go. This last point is known as 'series stacking', an important
emerging concept in the online video experience which in the UK has
been ruled as anti-competitive for the BBC to offer by the broadcast
regulator OFCOM."
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http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/01/media-landscape-in-sweden-no-holding-back-its-all-going-online/
What is SVT doing that the BBC can't?
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Regards,
Dave
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