I watched a peculiar 'drama-documentary' on BBC2 tonight entitled 'If... TV Goes Down the Tube'. The drama part was set in 2016 suggesting that TV programmes would be seen on the internet and the internet on TV and that the BBC was up for sale. A girl in a reality show committed suicide but no one was responsible because it was actually an internet show and not covered by Ofwat (or whatever the TV programmes regulator is called) and could not be regulated. The documentary part seemed to suggest that we would be paying so much per second for everything we accessed online. Funny, but I thought we sort of did that already, by paying for broadband, phone bills, etc.. From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757. Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock; Mem. of Wells Assn. (GOONS Reg.) ----- Original Message ----- From: <TebbuA@aol.com> To: <SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 21 March 2005 12:14 PM Subject: [SoG] Something more to worry about! > Those of you who have read the latest ed'n of Computer Active ( March 2005, > page 7 ) will no doubt be alarmed by gov't proposals to licence PCs. This > came to light in the recent green paper on the BBC's charter. It seems that we > are downloading too much from the BBC for free and are making it too difficult > to collect licence fees. ( What happened to all those lads in vans hiding > around the corner? ) The proposal is to charge the same as the TV licence fee > sometime after the renewal of the BBC's charter in 2006. Think about the > implications for business and education, let alone our researches. As these things are > not dreamt up overnight we can now perhaps understand why Mr Blair was so > keen, a couple of years ago, that we should all have internet access! > Don't forget The Medal Cards! Mike Tebbutt. > > > > > > > This email has been scanned for viruses by NetBenefit using Sophos anti-virus technology