Doctor Who fans must wait or be forced into an "infringe or be infringed" decision by BBC
The following is a comment I added to a Kasterborous editorial: iTunes, BBC? Really? This is not a question of money for me — I have spent $thousands$ in recent years on my love of Doctor Who , and I’m more than willing to pay extra to get early access to these episodes before the DVD’s come out. Unfortunately BBC didn’t give me that option, so I will need to either wait for the DVD’s or get the episodes from an “unauthorized” source. I am not a customer of Apple, nor will I ever be. I’ve spent more than a decade of my life as a political activist in support of IT property rights. As I discussed in a recent submission to the Canadian government on this issue http://c11.ca/brief , Apple is one of the worst infringers of IT property rights. They also actively lobby for legalizing and legally protecting infringements of IT property rights. While Apple is a direct infringer, inducing people into infringing situations puts the BBC in the same league for those of us trying to protect these