I'm sure consumers will be the winner out of all this! Yay lobbying!
On a slightly different note. I wonder why these kind of services haven't flourished further. It wouldn't be difficult to record everything on FTA TV in Australia and store it for say 2 or 3 months. Then offering a service to play back any missed shows on demand via streaming. This would obviously be a legally "grey" area (as it likely not legal at all), but I'm sure consumers would absolutely LOVE it.
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You could probably, make it legal by calling it an online PVR and only allowing users to access what they pre-request to "record".
I believe there are already companies that do this - but in the educational arena where everyone has paid up licenses already. So it isn't much of a jump.
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I'm sure consumers will be the winner out of all this! Yay lobbying!
On a slightly different note. I wonder why these kind of services haven't flourished further. It wouldn't be difficult to record everything on FTA TV in Australia and store it for say 2 or 3 months. Then offering a service to play back any missed shows on demand via streaming. This would obviously be a legally "grey" area (as it likely not legal at all), but I'm sure consumers would absolutely LOVE it.
You could probably, make it legal by calling it an online PVR and only allowing users to access what they pre-request to "record".
I believe there are already companies that do this - but in the educational arena where everyone has paid up licenses already. So it isn't much of a jump.
Licenses aren't cheap though in education
Consumers need to stop being self-entitled pricks.
Optus isn't serving the consumer, they're trying to undermine Telstra's contract and severely damage their business. That's all they're doing.
Nobody should be promoting these sorts of business practices.