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Re: [News] [Rival] MSBBC Busted by Parliament for the MS iPlayer Scam

____/ Kier on Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:53 : \____

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:34:47 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> ____/ Kier on Wednesday 16 January 2008 10:06 : \____
>> 
>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:00:31 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Two separate and independent sources said it was well over 100 million. I
>>>> think the BBC is now trying to bend the definitions as it came up with a
>>>> new figures that those responsible spit out in their blog (and mine) while
>>>> attempting to remain consistent wrt the numbers. They used a subset of the
>>>> whole to change the figure for all I can tell. By the way, the BBC
>>>> published an article praising (its own) iPlayer yesterday. It boasted one
>>>> million users (none of whom uses a Mac of Linux).
>>> 
>>> If they were counting the streaming player in with that, then yes, there
>>> were Linux users in that total - I was one of them.
>> 
>> I think they counted one million for the download/P2P service. That was in a
>> BBC, which is separate from the report in the Register. They use their
>> editorial control in the BBC site to defend/hide their corruption, IMHO.
>> It's
> 
> *What* corruption? Jesus, Roy, you can't go on saying stuff like this
> without proper evidence.

c/f OP. It's right there in details. Shall you require more compelling set of
coincidence, I shall happily provide them.

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