Posts Tagged ‘bbc’

BBC’s Arrogant Response to iPlayer/ISP Outrage

By DavidReece • Apr 3rd, 2008 • Category: News

Not content with relying on government backed extortion in the form of TV-Licences to fund their corporation, the BBC is now eating away at your broadband speed with their latest weapon, the iPlayer.
ISP’s in the UK are unhappy with the 20% rise in streaming costs caused by the bandwidth-hungry iPlayer, and are having to absorb [...]



Exposed: Why tv-links was really shut down

By DavidReece • Nov 21st, 2007 • Category: Business & Technology, News, Technology

For those who’s been under a rock for the past few months, the internet was recently awash with angry bloggers and confused web users over the scandalous arrest of tv-links founder, and the closing of the site for “providing links to copyrighted material”.
Many hundreds of comments included “If linking is illegal, why don’t they shut [...]