[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion que stion (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? C lick and Torrents)

2007-02-05 Thread migc63
The iTunes music store, along with others is a special case. I don’t think many consumers know in fact that they are, in effect, renting the music even though they have paid for it (by ‘renting’ I mean the fact that without an internet connection, if you were to shove your iTunes purchases

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion que stion (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? C lick and Torrents)

2007-02-01 Thread Gordon Joly
Yeah, OK. My point was that the BBC is supposed to be impartial on these matters, but always reports this issue in a way that follows a particular line. The BBC is supposed to represent the interests of the licence fee payers who pay for it and should at least consider that their interests

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion que stion (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? C lick and Torrents)

2007-01-31 Thread Josh at GoUK.com
If you make furniture, the fact that furniture-duplication wands are invented does not give you the right to restrict people from duplicating chairs. No, but I should have the rights to restrict people from duplicating MY chairs. That makes no sense. No chair is unique. They all

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion que stion (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? C lick and Torrents)

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Butterworth
(snip) The second is the withdrawal of the BBC and ITV (and soon C4 and Five) from using BSkyB's encryption service on satellite, because the EU Television Without Frontiers directive allows them not to. This is related to territorial rights granted by those that hold the