"Uno-Hoo!" <Uno-Hoo@NOSPAMbigfootdotcom> wrote in message
> My goodness, someone who actually feels the same way that I do! I've
always
> loathed football and everything to do with it! I watched about ten minutes
> of today's match in a final attempt to try and determine just *what* so
many
> people can find so fascinating. I failed - after ten minutes of total
> boredom watching a ball being kicked up the field and down the field I
just
> gave up. What a complete and utter waste of time and energy!
>
> Uno-Hoo!
>
> -------------------
Seems lots of people aren't so bored....
"The interesting thing about the TV Licensing Authoritiy's desperate
attempts to get their head around the displacements of terrestrial signals
with IP streaming is that they fundamentally fail to understand the
technology they're dealing with.
To quote your article: "If at any time you are watching TV over the Internet
at the same time as it is being broadcast you require a licence - and that
includes Internet streaming," she said.
Fab for us
So we just turn on the time shift facility in most PC based TV
tuners and we don't have to have a licence? Cool, I'll timeshift by 20
seconds thanks.
But such a statement is pretty dumb, because it muddies the water
considerably and shows that the TVLA is being misleading.
Time-shifting isn't permitted at all if you are the one consuming and making
the recording of a broadcast. The TVLA shouldn't imply that just broadcasts
"at the same time" require licences, and implicitly that those recordings
that are later viewed do not.
The BBC is streaming the football via Real Media, and tuning into the stream
does NOT require a licence. The TVLA's quote implying that internet
streaming does require a license is again, misleading... it only applies to
a broadcast signal.
The licensing rules are explicitly clear that you require a licence as soon
as you "consume a broadcast television signal". This means that if you have
*and use* a device capable of receiving the broadcast signal, such as a TV,
a TV tuner card, etc... than yes you require a licence.
But the BBC stream via Real Media is *not* the broadcast signal. It does
*not* require a TV tuner. And the TV license does *not* broadly apply to all
internet streaming and consumption of video of the world cup, even in real
time (or as close as streaming gets).
More details on licensing can be found here:
http://www.jifvik.org/tv/ .
It's a lot bloody clearer than what is usually spouted from the font of
misinformation known as the TVLA!"
--
John
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