On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:33, Nick Reynolds-FM&T
<[email protected]> wrote:
> What I'm describing is not home taping - it's publishing - the internet
> makes everything different

The point is -- the leap from 'having recorded some programmes' to
'publishing them on the Internet' isn't a small one in real terms. It
may well be a concern, but all evidence to date points to it being a
pretty misplaced one (in part because the "determined pirates" who
everybody knows aren't foiled by any of these measures continue
unabated regardless - thus, there's no incentive for ordinary honest
folk to go to the trouble of finding out how they might start to
publish their archive on the Internet). Plus, publishing a stash of
iPlayered content would stand out like a sore thumb -- unless you were
clued up enough that you're technically on a par with the determined
pirate class of users, you're not going to be able to keep something
like that hidden from BBC Legal for very long. It doesn't take much
imagination to see how selfsame honest folk would react to getting a
letter in the post from m'learned friends as a result of their
publication activities. "Turn the bloody thing off!" would tend
towards being high on the list of priorities.

M.
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