On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:23:32 +0100, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>____/ ed on Sunday 29 July 2007 18:16 : \____
>
>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:59:41 -0700
>> John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:46:43 +0100, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> >> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 29 July 2007 12:13 : \____
>>> >
>>> >The decision to waste licence-payer's money paying Microsoft to
>>> >develop code which could very easily have been done by capable local
>>> >or foreign people in a platform agnostic way is one for which heads
>>> >should role. I'm assuming that Ashley Highfield is at the centre of
>>> >this, but it also appears that the BBC Trust should be dissolved,
>>> >and that Alistair Faquarson also should be removed from the National
>>> >Archives, as he is clearly not pro-open-standards, which is not a
>>> >position an archivist should even /contemplate/ taking.
>>> I've decided to ignore all of this TV web crap. Besides, I have my
>>> Fawlty Towers, Black Adder and Red Dwarf DVDs. Now there was some
>>> REAL TV programming back when the BBC had great heart.
>>
>> You probably shouldn't ignore this topic. The beeb are planing on some
>> drastic changes, such as phasing out the TV licence and introducing a
>> computer licence. This came from their studies of the number of people
>> who watched the Olympic games via the web.
>>
>> Who knows... maybe they will phase out terrestrial TV with web tv in
>> our lifetimes, with News 24 moving to the web before other programmes.
>
>True, and that's why it's such a big deal. They might also have plans to make
>their Web site .NET-only. The BBC's technical department is Microsoft Corp.
>You are paying Microsoft via your taxes, which is unacceptable. There's a
>similar trend in American TV channels too. Stop it now before it gets too
>messy. That's what the Defective by Design campaigns is all about. We have
>been successful on the audio front (to some extent), but Hollywood is harder
>to defeat. They look at the anti-DRM folks as though they are mob, rebels.
You guys are are right on this. If I remember right, TV licensing was going
to attempt to fine people for watching the Wold Cup over broadband if they
didn't have a TV license.
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