The group of licence fee payers who have been affected by all this lockdown is larger than you realise, Nick.
And they're also early adopters as well. For instance, my Nokia N900 may have Flash 9.4 on board, but i'm sure unadorned streams woukld play out better. I run Ubuntu on an Atom netbook. If the Beeb rolled out a plugin as well as their Flash client, as in one that fed into vlc, xbmc or whatever, it would be good press all around. Just feels like loads of kicks in the teeth. ----- Original message ----- > The BBC had a choice > > a) do nothing and run the risk of content not be available to licence > fee payers > > b) do something which does achieve the desired effect and has a very > small negative impact on a very small group of people if indeed it has > any negative effect at all > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Bradley > Sent: 15 June 2010 15:14 > To: backstage > Subject: Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Mo McRoberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > the BBC had a choice: > > a) do nothing > > b) do something which didn't achieve the desired effect, and > caused > additional negative effects > > it chose (b), because the rights-holders threw their toys out of > the pram. > > now, either this is because the people who know that this is the > case > couldn't make themselves heard, or because stopping piracy > wasn't the > goal in the first place. which is it? > > > This is an interesting question, because I can't see what the goal here > is from the BBC. Did they genuinely believe the rights-holders' bluff? > > Adam
