Re: UKNM: Streams of Conciousness

[Bill Thompson]

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At 17:13 08/10/98 +0100, you wrote:

>As a new-media revolutionary, I find this a fairly entertaining piece

of

>old-media people totally failing to get it. 

>

>"Linking to content is theft!"

>

>

>http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/15486.html


As the story points out, people like broadcast.com are pissed off

that web users are just linking to their video streams and missing

the ads.  Of course our very own BBC has got round this by

putting a good 30 secs of advertising^H^H^H^H^trailer  - got

to be accurate here! - at the front of every news broadcast

on news.bbc.co.uk


presumably nobody there has realised what the >> button does on

RealPlayer...


Bill

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