____/ 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
far from the first time they do this. Did you know they never covered the
protests? Many people noticed that!
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