"There's an old saying in the Internet world that when the Internet detects censorship or choke points, be they technological, business, or political, it just routes around them. The Internet is in the process of routing around the TV networks."
This is the heart of it. Well said, Carl.
"The only question is whether they'll change soon enough to avoid becoming irrelevant."
No. They won't.
Tommo_UK just had to pull a post in the Mac Observer Apple Finance board "you wouldn't believe the email I just received":
http://www.macobserver.com/forum...r=asc&
start=100
It seems it was related to the BBC content and distribution.
For those not in the UK the BBC is funded by a license fee to all TV owners (about £300 / year). Nevertheless it is under great pressure to reduce costs and increase revenue. Selling BBC content to the whole world without any infrastructure expenditure or marketing costs would be a nice quick fix. UK taxpayers would not buy (very much) as they are already receiving the programmes free. Any sales to the rest of the world would help reduce costs to the UK license. Win-win for Apple, the BBC and UK license payers.
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