[IP] Auntie's Digital Revolution

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:54:18 +0100
> To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
> From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk>
>
>
> Hi Dave:
>
> For IP
>
> I recommend the article "Auntie's Digital Revolution" in the computer 
> section of today's edition of the Guardian newspaper. ("Auntie" is a 
> well-known affectionate name for the BBC, at least here in the UK.)
>
> The article describes in more detail than I, at any rate, have seen before 
> the BBC's recently unveiled plans to make lots of its back catalogue of 
> programmes freely available online, and documents the role played by 
> Lawrence Lessig and Brewster Kahle in this decision.
>
> The subtitle to the piece is however strange, in that it talks about 
> making the archives "free for licence players", though it is not at all 
> obvious from the actual text that there is any plan to restrict access to 
> licence payers, leave alone how this might be achieved. (Here in the UK, 
> you need to purchase an annual licence fee in order to operate a 
> television set - these fess provide the BBC's main source of income.)
>
> The article can be found at:
>
>   http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1030176,00.html
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian
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