> "Anthony Anderson, managing director of Naxos UK, one of the biggest > publishers of classical-music CDs, complained: "By offering downloads for > nothing, the BBC was distorting the marketplace. Is this what a public-sector > broadcaster, largely funded by the licence fee, should be doing?"
Yes. Totally. The BBC is funded by the public sector and should look after the benefits of said public sector, namely us, the public. Anthony Anderson is trying to argue that the BBC as a public sector broadcaster should somehow favour the benefits of the private sector - which is an obvious non sequitur. As the price of music tends to zero, futile attempts by the music distributors to prevent the free dissemination of creative works will only hamper their ability to fully embrace the inevitable marketplace of the future. Look how Apple (iTunes) stepped in and stole the potential market from the existing content distributors because it embraced change instead of resisting it. -- Noah Slater <http://www.bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman - 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]/
