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Bobben
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Date Posted: 22:59:39 11/16/03 Sun
In reply to:
John A.
's message, "Re: Laudamus te" on 15:13:50 11/16/03 Sun
>>The big problem is that BBC is NOT a public
>>broadcaster outside GB, its only for public inside GB.
>
>But members of the GB public may reside outside the
>GB, and have paid for the service. BBC may be
>unintelligible or not have been paid for by certain
>residents of GB. Why should anyone, anywhere, be
>restricted in their choice of reception? If it has to
>be paid for by the receiver, why does his/her address
>make any difference?
I agree , it is a problem.
>>
>>Any broadcaster that makes its channel available
>>across Europe will be charged for European coverage by
>>rights sellers
>
>Who are these "rights sellers"? What goods or services
>do they provide in exchange for payment? By whose
>authority are they able to do this? Where, and from
>whom, did they obtain these rights?
Well a few examples is the big movie companies, UEFA,FIFA,Scottish Premier League, Premier League, and other companies producing TV series etc.
There has already been stories about News Datacom is considering to
sue the BBC for making it possible to view the Simpsons outside GB (I think it was the simpsons). Hard to believe..
The Scottish Premier league is not available on satellite because it would violate Setantas rights (and BBC could be sued..).
Encryption could be the solution to control
viewing numbers but if the cost of NDS/BSkyB encryption estimation on MediaGuardian was correct then it is understandable that NDS/BSkyB encryption was no alternative. Use of other encryption system will block for all Digibox'es so BBC seems to have been forced to the Astra 2D solution.
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>and artist etc. that get royalties from
>>broadcast(that also included radio...).
>
>That is easily handled just as e.g. for Cd recordings.
It might not be a wery big problem with radio exept for live premier league which I guess was the reason why BBC Radio 5 was encrypted before it moved to Astra 2D.
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>To make it
>>even worse some rigths is exclusive per country basis
>>so some movies&sports can not be distributed by more
>>than one channel. This makes it possible for the
>>rightsellers to make more money.
>
>Sure, but who are these people, and how did they
>obtain the rights?
Well an example is if the BBC shows
FA cup live. FA have probably sold FA Cup livegames exclusive to pay-tv in some countries. If its possible to watch the games for free on BBC then nobody will buy them on pay-tv. The pay-tv channels could then sue BBC for lost income. In a longer term it will make it harder for FA to sell this games to pay-tv and FA will make less money.
Even with encrypted BBC anyone watching them outside GB will probably interfer with exclusive rights and thats probably the reason why an old FTV card could not be obtained with a non-UK adress so at least on the paper the access was restricted to Britain when BBC was encrypted.
>> Thats why some
>>public broadcasters have "international" versions
>>stripped of any interessting programs ;-)
>
>That seems to be the case.
>
And one could probably call BBC World and BBC Prime BBC's international channels ;-)
Lets hope that things will change in the next few
years ,...although I dont believe it :-(
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