Hi All,
Can anyone give some insight in to how much a license that allows BBC
radio or Virgin to stream worldwide to the web actually is?
A few years ago, I explored the possibilities of Podcast's and there
was simply no worldwide license system available. It may be now
possible to include many Podcasts under one license, if for instance,
they all came under the auspices of a BBC sponsored public project on
the web...... as the host would already have the required legal
status. Then, the creators could contribute towards such a license,
instead of having to pay the whole amount. A little like buying a BBC
DVD, or TV license if you happen to be a BBC content producer. :-)
I could see such a project as quite a positive, if experimental, step
for the BBC as distributors, including music. If the BBC are not
inclined, it would be interesting to know if the commercial economics
add up yet.
Regards
RichE
On 20 Nov 2007, at 12:17, Barry Carlyon wrote:
Well the only reason I pay the license fee is so I can have a tv
(and not get fined lots of money), the only bbc programme I watch
is spooks, which I watch thru the iPlayer anyway….
So the license fee is irrelevant…..
Barry
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And the BBC MUST be popular - otherwise no licence fee
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Forget popularity, think about principle.
It is worth noting that often these things turn around on the head
of a pin. If we were having this discssion in 1985, someone would
have pointed out that "no one ever got sacked for buying IBM".
Everyone was "happy" with the popular 3270 terminals connected to
proriatory mainframes.
Then came the minicomputer running Unix with RAID disks and VT220
terminals.
There are plenty of other examples of this. Dave is 100% correct
to say that being popular today is a poor way of determining the
future.
No. Being popular is not *a poor way* of determining the future.
Being popular is *not necessarily a good way* of determining the
future. These are not the same thing. In Davetopia everything is
black and white - popular = bad. In the real world, things are
less clear cut. Popular has no place on the scale between good and
bad.
Rich.
