So what does this really mean

[michael norman]

On 16/09/16 20:44, David Cantrell wrote:
> 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.
>
At the risk of being told some people don't want to live in the country 
as me, exactly what does this have to do with GIP even tangentially ?  I 
thought we were discussing access to BBC content ?

Are we not OT with this ?

I just ask.

M