So what does this really mean

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Fri Sep 16 12:44:53 PDT 2016


On 2016-09-16, 19:16, RS wrote:

> I am not convinced by the argument that European copyright licences
> would be much more expensive because 38% of the EU population speak
> English as an additional language.   People want to watch television in
> their mother tongue.  13% of the EU population have English as their
> mother tongue, the same as Italian.  For German the figure is 18%.
> German broadcasters are very liberal at making their television channels
> freely available.  The Italians make SD RA1, RAI2 and RAI3 available
> unencrypted.

Have you seen the quality of TV programming in Italian and German? THAT 
is why they want English content, and also why their own content is not 
worth protecting.

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David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig

   NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed
     -- brian d foy



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