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.
Actually, more to the point: If -- for example -- iPlayer Desktop didn't DRM the files, who do you think would know? And those that did become aware of it, what proportion of those people would have the smarts to make use of that in order to keep copies of the files and create a personal archive of a TV programme (which they can do with a PVR, of course, given sufficient disk space)? Of those people who have the technical smarts to do that, what proportion of those *don't* know how to create a personal archive of a TV programme through some other means (captured from broadcast, BitTorrent, Usenet, IRC, whatever)? And then, of those people, how many of them are going to want to distribute the captured programmes to other people willy-nilly, given that their peer group can likely accomplish the same thing all by themselves, or alternately is happy with the status quo (i.e., what level of demand is there for people doing this)? If the BDG don't have a figure for that which shows it's anything other than infinitesimal, then the whole thing is essentially based on somebody's hunch, and not a very well-thought-through one at that. M. - 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]/
