Comments on: Blockbuster store museum http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/blockbuster-store-museum/ helping people break out of pigeonholes since 2003 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Crosbie Fitch http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/blockbuster-store-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-2064 Crosbie Fitch Mon, 19 May 2008 19:01:27 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/blockbuster-store-museum/#comment-2064 Even weirder, the audience funded BBC also believe they have to take pains to prevent the programmes their customers paid for from reaching those customers. What makes it so weird, is that unlike the film industry, they're not even in the business of selling copies (except latterly as a minor business on the side). They have direct funding from their customers with a direct distribution channel back to them, and yet they have problems with the idea that their customers may be entitled to actually receive what they paid for. The BBC spent £6,000,000 on DRM based technology iPlayer precisely so that it could make delivery via the Internet less functional and less convenient than spending nothing and letting their customers use BitTorrent (which they do anyway). Copyright must give corporations brain damage. Nothing else can explain this counter-productive corporate folly. Even weirder, the audience funded BBC also believe they have to take pains to prevent the programmes their customers paid for from reaching those customers.

What makes it so weird, is that unlike the film industry, they’re not even in the business of selling copies (except latterly as a minor business on the side). They have direct funding from their customers with a direct distribution channel back to them, and yet they have problems with the idea that their customers may be entitled to actually receive what they paid for.

The BBC spent £6,000,000 on DRM based technology iPlayer precisely so that it could make delivery via the Internet less functional and less convenient than spending nothing and letting their customers use BitTorrent (which they do anyway).

Copyright must give corporations brain damage. Nothing else can explain this counter-productive corporate folly.

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