Originally posted by vetran
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The thing is if all the Sky channels are crap, you can choose not to subscribe and they lose money. If ITV/C4/Five/whatever are crap, you can not watch them and they don't get the money from the advertisers and they lose money. If the BBC are crap, and nobody watches, they get the money anyway.
Now if only we decriminalise the Beeb tax we could save many women being convicted.
Now if a government had any sense they would have ruled every tv and Freeview / freesat module should have a CI module fitted during the freeview upgrade and then encrypted the BBC. It could charge what it likes and stop this cat & mouse game.
Putting encryption in would have made all the boxes more complicated and more expensive, whereas pushing the free unencrypted service opened the way for cheap as chips set top boxes and cheaper tellies with it built in. And of course the BBC were quite happy to promote this.
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