Digital Britain

"Content owners like the BBC can't expect to continue to get a 'free ride'. They will need to make a fair contribution to the huge costs of bandwidth to deliver their iPlayer programmes,"

So I read that BT expect the BBC to pay for bandwidth costs, wtf? BT has contracts with its customers, not the BBC, or any other content provider for that matter. But BT think that the BBC should foot the bill for their iPlayer service.

This is absolute crap, utter utter shite. BT provide a service to its customers, they offer xMbps and xGB download per month. If a customer decides to use all of that, that is up to them, they could max it out on iPlayer, or anything else for that matter, like porn, FTP whatever, so why should the BBC pay any money over the rest of the web? If I had some images on my blog and they got viewed trillions of times a second, would I have to pay BT for people viewing my content? I don't think so.

This is just typical of ISPs, they sell over the capacity they can provide, so when something like iPlayer comes along, that the layman who normally just downloads a few emails/web pages every day, would actually use, the ISPs shit them selves, they can't provide the capacity THEY have sold, I'm sure you could get sued for that!

This is where contention, limits, throttling and all that shit comes in, the ISPs are selling you a service and them sticking a load of restrictions in, that's just unfair, why should people who use bit-torrent suffer over people who don't. They have paid their fee just like anyone else. The opposite applies to the BBC.