Rob - you forget that the BBC is also a content vendor. Also content vendors do want their content to be shown to licence fee payers. They just want some compensation in return. And it's an exaggeration to say that the content venedors are getting "everything they want".
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Myers Sent: 03 October 2009 16:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] The BBC is encrypting its HD signal by the back door > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 19:53, Nick Reynolds-FM&T <[email protected]>wrote: > > How would the cause of audiences be served if the BBC refused to deal > with content vendors and as a result audiences could not access that > content? History shows that this won't happen. And this time the BBC is in an even stronger position given the collapse of advertising revenue for commercial TV in the UK. The BBC is a nice big pot of easy money for content vendors. The threats of content vendors not to take that money shouldn't fool anyone with two brain cells to rub together. Next they'll be threatening to hold their breath until they get what they want. > As usual it's a difficult balancing act. It is not. It's capitulation to special interests for no good reason. If it was a balancing act, how would just giving the side that is against the BBC and its audience everything they want "balance" things? - Rob. - 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]/
