So the role of the broadcaster used to easy. Programs were broadcast over a limited area that could be tightly controlled.
Some broadcaster pay huge sums of money for the rights to broadcast certain events (films, sporting events, programs such as Planet Earth (GBP8m) etc. ) They need to recoup this money. They do this by selling the rights for a certain georgraphy to other broadcasters. Or they pay less but can only broadcast to certain geographies.
The web has changed all this.
Some contracts allow broadcasters to rebroadcast on the web but only to their own georgraphy. My companys exit onto the internet is not in the UK. Therefore I can not access BBC/Channel4 content from work - none UK IP address. I don't hear anyone screaming about the injustice of this situation.
For the BBC to be able to succesfully bid for programmes and offer them on line they have to show the copyright holders they can protect their rights and, ultimatly whether you like it or not, their revenue stream. If the BBC can not show they can do this then either they are not considered in the race to purchase programmes or they can not offer them up via the web.
As someone says on this discussion 'no system is fair to everyone'. The BBC is luadable in that they are trying to offer some content to some people in a time/place shifted manner. If you don't like what they offer go out and get a solution that allows you to record the broadcast material that you can use when you want. (Bewaare though that there are legal protections, for the BBC, on this activity that while harder to police/enforce you should respect if you respect the fact that someone must create and pay for this content somewere. The license fee does not give you a right to material that the BBC has purchased/created in the same way the membership of a library does not give you the right to photocopy evrybook in it and distribute for free to whom so ever might want it.)
So I really do not think the author has fully understood what happens at the end of the 30 day grace period. And as usual the majority of the anti-ms types of slashdot have blindly agreed with any anti-MS sentiments voiced rather than spend time researching the truth; it is out there.
At the end of the grace activation period (30 days) Windows Vista goes into 'reduced' functionality mode. Microsoft do not encrypt data, they do not delete data, they do not prevent you from getting to that data to off load it. What happens is that Windows Vista runs the default browser (yes even if its Firefox it runs it) that will allow you to connect to the activation site via the web, or any other web site if it comes to that, or present instructions on how to activate via the telephone.
After one hour the logged on user is logged off. The user can immediately log back on. Users are presented with reminders about activation as the grace period expires, with increasing frequency, until they activate or elect to not. The purpose of Activation is not to be able to deny you access to data but to deny people who pirate closed source software a revenue stream.
Have a look at the following two URLs for more detail.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/plan /faq.mspx#EYPAChttp://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004970
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So I really do not think the author has fully understood what happens at the end of the 30 day grace period. And as usual the majority of the anti-ms types of slashdot have blindly agreed with any anti-MS sentiments voiced.
At the end of the grace activation period (30 days) Windows Vista goes into 'reduced' functionality mode. Microsoft do not encrypt data, they do not delete data, they do not prevent you from getting to that data to off load it. What happens is that Windows Vista runs the default browser (yes even if its Firefox it runs it) that will allow you to connect to the activation site via the web, or any other web site if it comes to that, or present instructions on how to activate via the telephone.
After one hour the logged on user is logged off. The user can immediately log back on. Users are presented with reminders about activation as the grace period expires, with increasing frequency until, they activate or elect to not. The purpose of Activation is not to be able to deny you access to data but to deny people who pirate closed source software a revenue stream.
Have a look at the following two URLs for more detail.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/plan /faq.mspx#EYPAChttp://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004970
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So the role of the broadcaster used to easy. Programs were broadcast over a limited area that could be tightly controlled.
/place shifted manner. If you don't like what they offer go out and get a solution that allows you to record the broadcast material that you can use when you want. (Bewaare though that there are legal protections, for the BBC, on this activity that while harder to police/enforce you should respect if you respect the fact that someone must create and pay for this content somewere. The license fee does not give you a right to material that the BBC has purchased/created in the same way the membership of a library does not give you the right to photocopy evrybook in it and distribute for free to whom so ever might want it.)
Some broadcaster pay huge sums of money for the rights to broadcast certain events (films, sporting events, programs such as Planet Earth (GBP8m) etc. ) They need to recoup this money. They do this by selling the rights for a certain georgraphy to other broadcasters. Or they pay less but can only broadcast to certain geographies.
The web has changed all this.
Some contracts allow broadcasters to rebroadcast on the web but only to their own georgraphy. My companys exit onto the internet is not in the UK. Therefore I can not access BBC/Channel4 content from work - none UK IP address. I don't hear anyone screaming about the injustice of this situation.
For the BBC to be able to succesfully bid for programmes and offer them on line they have to show the copyright holders they can protect their rights and, ultimatly whether you like it or not, their revenue stream. If the BBC can not show they can do this then either they are not considered in the race to purchase programmes or they can not offer them up via the web.
As someone says on this discussion 'no system is fair to everyone'. The BBC is luadable in that they are trying to offer some content to some people in a time
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So I really do not think the author has fully understood what happens at the end of the 30 day grace period. And as usual the majority of the anti-ms types of slashdot have blindly agreed with any anti-MS sentiments voiced rather than spend time researching the truth; it is out there. At the end of the grace activation period (30 days) Windows Vista goes into 'reduced' functionality mode. Microsoft do not encrypt data, they do not delete data, they do not prevent you from getting to that data to off load it. What happens is that Windows Vista runs the default browser (yes even if its Firefox it runs it) that will allow you to connect to the activation site via the web, or any other web site if it comes to that, or present instructions on how to activate via the telephone. After one hour the logged on user is logged off. The user can immediately log back on. Users are presented with reminders about activation as the grace period expires, with increasing frequency, until they activate or elect to not. The purpose of Activation is not to be able to deny you access to data but to deny people who pirate closed source software a revenue stream. Have a look at the following two URLs for more detail. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/plan /faq.mspx#EYPAC
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004970
sorry right post wrong subject. :-(
So I really do not think the author has fully understood what happens at the end of the 30 day grace period. And as usual the majority of the anti-ms types of slashdot have blindly agreed with any anti-MS sentiments voiced. At the end of the grace activation period (30 days) Windows Vista goes into 'reduced' functionality mode. Microsoft do not encrypt data, they do not delete data, they do not prevent you from getting to that data to off load it. What happens is that Windows Vista runs the default browser (yes even if its Firefox it runs it) that will allow you to connect to the activation site via the web, or any other web site if it comes to that, or present instructions on how to activate via the telephone. After one hour the logged on user is logged off. The user can immediately log back on. Users are presented with reminders about activation as the grace period expires, with increasing frequency until, they activate or elect to not. The purpose of Activation is not to be able to deny you access to data but to deny people who pirate closed source software a revenue stream. Have a look at the following two URLs for more detail. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/plan /faq.mspx#EYPAC
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004970