Re: A rock and a hard place
So, what have rights holders lost? If I use get_iplayer to record the Afternoon Play from Radio 4 to listen to later , how have I deprived the rights holder of any revenue? It is not like there's a market for CDs for such things , and the only reason such plays get recorded in the first place is because of license fee payers. For the vast majority of the BBC's output there is no commercial market, and despite it being perfectly possible to get good free digital copies of the likes of Sherlock, Dr Who, Top Gear etc the BBC makes good money selling DVDs of their top shows. Seems to me all the BBC has demonstrated is that open source software is much better than the set top boxes. I salute them !
Biting the hand that feeds IT
