On Tuesday 31 July 2007 19:50, Dave Crossland wrote: > There are efforts to make unauthorised sharing of television as easy > as possible though, such as http://www.rulecam.net/ted/ and this makes > a mockery of highly restricted systems that abuse the public's rights,
You're saying that "unauthorised sharing" is a right? Last time I looked it wasn't. If you want to change copyright, lobby the government. Last time I looked people got VERY upset if the BBC took a political stance on something. You're appear to be advocating people break the law, whilst mocking the BBC for respecting the state granted monopoly rights of those who make the programmes it distributes. Copyright is a fact of life today. iPlayer may have problems from your perspective, but it does do something that "TED" doesn't do: it specifically enables people to get at content perfectly legally, without breaking the law, and people using it can be happy that anything they get that way won't get them in trouble with some rights holder. *THAT* is an achievement, and its a very important achievement, and one incredibly easy to overlook because you're defending the "rights" of others to unauthorised sharing. Can it be done in better ways? Sure - all technology can be improved. I would **personally** appreciate people NOT discussing personal politics on this list. I'd also personally appreciate people not encouraging people to break the law on this list. BUT that's just my personal opinion. If its considered fair game, I may as well unsubscribe - after all the BBC works within the law, it doesn't make the law, and people get extremely upset when the BBC *does* play politics. Michael. - 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]/
