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Argh. problems with the conveniences of the nice and shiny internet : fans don't quite get the real world implications.
Fans on JB list whining about why can't they have dvds of pantos JB has been in. Cue us having to explain that panto is big business, pantos fund the smaller theatres for the year, and that most panto scripts and effects are recycled (with tweaking for topicality) and the script and stuff used again in another theatre the next year. Or to put it another way, a couple of hundred dvd sales at about £17 each versus a couple of million theatre tickets at an average of £20-25 each...
Similar with website content : BBC does not make all of its content available to overseas because of how much bandwidth costs. UK isps? Will have almost certainly paid their licence fees, which covers over 50% of its funding. overseas? ...That'd be a nope. Also, there's copyright issues. Someone else brought up the BSG webisodes not being available outside of the US even though they were part-funded by UK company. Even without the copyright issues ... I... these people clearly aren't aware of the shit-storm those webisodes brought up - they were one of the triggers for the current Writers' Guild strike.
Torchwood fandom has a .... tendency to do vids to John Barrowman songs. Many of them are rather dire. Some are very good. However, as the new album has been out for a good few weeks now, I'm still wondering why no-one's done one to 'You're So Vain' yet. Seriously. Captain Jack's *made* for that. Mind you, the Doctor probably is too.
Fans on JB list whining about why can't they have dvds of pantos JB has been in. Cue us having to explain that panto is big business, pantos fund the smaller theatres for the year, and that most panto scripts and effects are recycled (with tweaking for topicality) and the script and stuff used again in another theatre the next year. Or to put it another way, a couple of hundred dvd sales at about £17 each versus a couple of million theatre tickets at an average of £20-25 each...
Similar with website content : BBC does not make all of its content available to overseas because of how much bandwidth costs. UK isps? Will have almost certainly paid their licence fees, which covers over 50% of its funding. overseas? ...That'd be a nope. Also, there's copyright issues. Someone else brought up the BSG webisodes not being available outside of the US even though they were part-funded by UK company. Even without the copyright issues ... I... these people clearly aren't aware of the shit-storm those webisodes brought up - they were one of the triggers for the current Writers' Guild strike.
Torchwood fandom has a .... tendency to do vids to John Barrowman songs. Many of them are rather dire. Some are very good. However, as the new album has been out for a good few weeks now, I'm still wondering why no-one's done one to 'You're So Vain' yet. Seriously. Captain Jack's *made* for that. Mind you, the Doctor probably is too.
