Yeah, Europe is totally cool with Free-to-Air, they just haven’t caught up with the Internet yet. :) Fortunately some commissioner wants to watch foreign sport or something, and Europe has a common market, so … not long now. :)
The BBC still has a place for me, but I’m afraid they’re slipping more and more into the waiting arms of mediocrity as their content licensers have them firmly under their control and are using that to exercise all the usual exclusivity nonsense, even at the expense of British viewers. Even their reporting is not what it once was. It’s been hard for me to feel bad about the government’s increasing cuts to it as a consequence. They have massive archives of premium content that I’d love to get at, and they still commission some really great content, but it seems they get more out of threatening people with fines and restricting people from cross-platform access to programming than they do from charging subscription service fees for the 21st century and actually selling in-print material that people want to buy. I can only suggest you look into tools like get_iplayer and find yourself an unblocked VPS if you particularly need access for some reason. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
