You'd be surprised - they do (think it's a concern) 

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mo McRoberts
Sent: 14 July 2010 11:26
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:10, Nick Reynolds-FM&T
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it is a kind of slippery slope - one day you're making a
personal archive of a TV programme, the next you are publishing it all
on the internet for your friends - even this which might seem harmless
might prevent a rights holder setting up their own website to do the
same thing commercially and legitimately.

I'm actually flabbergasted that people think this is a serious concern.

> My own personal definition of a pirate and I would stress it is a
personal one not a BBC or official one is someone who knowingly attempts
to sell or commercially exploit other people's intellectual property
without their permission.

mine's actually a little broader than that, but at least we generally
agree on something :)

> People say "there's nothing people can do about this" but Pirate Bay
was closed down and fined heavily and I haven't seen much about them
since.

They were back online within about 24 hours and are still running more
or less quite happily. And, more to the point, there were *one* site of
many. Running a tracker's easy - that's the problem with peer-to-peer.
It's not a million miles away from trying to stop people delivering
letters to one another by hand.

M.

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