On 06/11/2007, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forget management, I fear you'll find that the BBC Trust's permission > to offer 7 days catchup TV was predicated on using DRM. > > Various parts of its non-DRM on demand radio proposals (book readings, > classical music) failed the Public Value Test due to the BBC Trust's > fears over the negative market impact of non-DRM downloads.
Yes, more people would have learnt about classical music and read more books. > Though option 2 seems, to me at least, to clearly be in the > license-payer's (and > > our) interest - and a technically superior option - it's certainly a > much > > higher-risk strategy from Ashley's perspective, and, politically, would > most > > likely be a very hard sell to BBC management. > > > > At what point does option 1 become untenable? > > > > Cheers, > > David > > -- > > David McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Department of Computing, Imperial College, London > > > > > > > - > 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]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv
