Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC slander

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-02-06 16:19:26 +0000 Tom Chance <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Friday 06 Feb 2004 15:43, P.L.Hayes wrote:
> I don't think we want to spread this too wide, since we're hardly in 
> a 
> position to critique the BBC's reporting as a whole ;)

Our TV tax pays for it, so I think we are, but it does take a lot of 
time and effort that is probably best spent elsewhere.

> The charter review might also be a good place to air these wider 
> concerns.

Possibly. The BBC does seem very gung-ho on supporting the copyright 
lobby in their reporting, but then they do things like going 
free-to-air on digital terrestial and satellite AIUI.

Is this more in the UKCDR's field than AFFS's? I admit to not 
following them very closely (wanted: 36-hour days).

> > Yes, Stephen Evans's name comes to mind again methinks. What of the
> > non-appearance of their promised Ogg streams too - I've harried them 
> > about
> > their destructive and exclusive addiction to the Real formats before 
> > but to
> > no avail. Is the UKCDR interested in such matters?
> I have no idea, I'm not the UKCDR ;) Like I said, it would be worth 
> raising 
> (I can if you're not on the lists) but I don't know what will come of 
> it.

Please raise it there if Paul Hayes doesn't, but maybe some BBC people 
seem to think criticism of Real is support for Windows Media Player, 
according to 
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2004-January/041215.html

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