A solution to BT vs BBC
Aside, before I begin: note, shall ye, that BT is a partner in the BBC’s Project Canvas, which is currently moving a little slower through the wheels of bureaucracy than some would like, thanks to the failure on the part of the executive to actually explain it.
The solution is simple.
Block access to the BBC altogether.
None of this “half measures” throttling stuff. Switch it off.
If the BBC cares deeply about ensuring BT’s customers can do whatever they like without risk of BT pulling the rug out from under them, they’ll surely put their hand in their (by which I mean “our”—assuming you, like I, am a license-fee payer) pockets.
Then, watch BT attempt to enforce thousands of early-contract-termination charges and try to refuse to give out MACs to people wishing to switch to a competent ISP.
It’d be a regulatory field-day so monumental that we’d lift ourselves out of the recession just by giving people jobs at the Office of Fair Trading and Ofcom in order to deal with the investigations and paperwork.
It is, as they say, a plan with no drawbacks.
