On 22-Jan-2010, at 23:01, Frank Wales wrote: > I just wonder if the BBC realize how Freeview HD content restriction > could become a PR Nightmare Construction Kit for their tabloid foes. > > Once someone makes available code to defeat it, how could prosecutions > ensue without risking raging headlines like: > > "BBC prosecutes licence-fee payer for watching Doctor Who" > > And, if prosecutions did not ensue, then we might have: > > "BBC wastes your money to shore up Hollywood's profits"
Spot on. It’s lose-lose, and the BBC are on both sides: the public’s only on one of them. Here’s a novel idea: why doesn’t the BBC, and the content distributors, explain what it is they want to achieve, and ask all of the people who are doing a very good job of shooting this proposal down in flames (a) whether it’s workable (and if not, why not), and (b) what the alternative options are? Pay a few train fares if it helps, get a discussion going. Get the message across that, actually, neither the BBC nor the public are trying to be particularly difficult or awkward, but that there are tangible problems which need to be solved (though they may not necessarily be the ones some believe them to be), and there are some of the smartest people around who would only be too happy to try to reach some sort of… mutual understanding, as it were. M. -- mo mcroberts http://nevali.net iChat: [email protected] Jabber/GTalk: [email protected] Twitter: @nevali Run Leopard or Snow Leopard? Set Quick Look free with DropLook - http://labs.jazzio.com/DropLook/ - 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]/
