On 23 Mar 2010, at 14:33, Malcolm Hunter wrote: >> indeed, however the predominant use is piracy so like with handguns and >> knives the legitimate use becomes collateral damage in the legislative >> "war on piracy". >> >> The case for legitimate use of P2P was somewhat undermined when the >> likes of the BBC decided it was cheaper to pay for bandwidth as the >> price of the latter had fallen. > > Did anyone see Panorama recently discussing the bill? It's still on iPlayer > if anyone's interested. I laughed when the "tech" person examined the > family's hard drive and discovered a copy of uTorrent on it, which is used > for downloading copyrighted material. Of course this was a damning piece of > evidence!!! No clarification that this is actually a legitimate piece of > software that has just been used for illegitimate purposes. There's not just > Open Source software available on Bittorent. Some bands share their music > this way.
I companed to the BBC about this I should have encariged eveyone one to do the same on the BBC website both the Panorama pages and the BBC's main pages. Steve > > Malc > > > -- > Technical copy-editor & proofreader > > KDE Proofreading Team > KDE British English Translation Team > > http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=en_GB > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FriendlyAtheist > > Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - > jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
