The BBC's Take on BitTorrent

First time I've seen a major network tell the p2p story right.

Of course, it's a Brit, but still, progress. Odds are the BBC is read more over a larger area than any of the US networks.

Wow.

A major media conglomerate actually ADMITTING that they were wrong? Will wonders ever cease. Gotta hand it to them on this one.

The BBC also gets no money from advertising and not a great amount from selling content, so if anyone would be willing to talk about it, it'd be a government-run agency, like the BBC, that gets funding from taxes and licenses, not advertisers.

Additionally, I wonder what the laws the RIAA is citing in the US and its sister organizations in other countries. Have there been any real court decisions (in the UK, especially, as that's where this story is coming from) saying that file sharing is stealing? You always hear about the RIAA settling its lawsuits, but I haven't heard about one going to trial...

I don't really remember any/many court decisions over file sharing here in the UK at all. And certainly none saying that it is stealing.

Why are people shocked to hear the BBC correct themselves? They pride themselves on impartiality and have a whole show on Sunday night dedicated to correcting any reporting errors made and reading viewers correspondance, no matter how damning it is.

On the whole, the report was neither too imformative nor well written.

If anything, music sharing probably helps more people find bands they like and thus get more fans who'll buy merchandise and go to concerts...you can't download those from BitTorrent :)

Just look at the Arctic Monkeys for a prime example of this!

On the whole, the report was neither too imformative nor well written.

I think it was well-written, but didn't give much information as to what Bittorrent is or what it really means. Perhaps they expect their audience to already know that, though.