Big Brother man: TV viewers will swap privacy for content

The exit is over there -->

He's been banging on about this for ages, I remember him saying the exact same thing defending Phorm.

Wow

Thats blue sky out of the box thinking from a media luvvie that is. Or utter horseshit to the rest of us.

Kill it, kill it with fire!

If there was ever anyone who justified inventing a timemachine only for the purpose of killing their parents before they were born - this man is it.

Bazalgette

Guy who runs this is the ancestor of the man who designed and built the London sewer system. Interesting that he is now pumping shit into peoples homes and his ancestor did the opposite.

Paris: well you don't have to give any information to watch her.

So what about Political documentaries about government corruption?

So if we want to watch a documentary about government corruption, the government can then use our tax payers money, to pay the TV company for our private data, so they can then find out (and draw up punishment lists) of all of us who have learned about the government corruption, and so they can know who of us are likely to stand up and oppose even more corrupt government moves.

Wonderful. This is one more step towards governments automating infamous political enemies lists, where they use the state as a means to "screw" political enemies, i.e. people who know too much about what the government are really doing wrong and so are at risk of standing up to and opposing the government.

I wish Orwell's work wasn't so good at predicting the future. :(

Too many leaches..

There is far too much Money in TV advertising as it is, 60 channels of rubbish prove this.

I'm happy with ad free Beeb and a licence.

I'm sure sky users are happy with sky for twice as much as the beeb.

The ad feeders can just shrivel up and die.

Phorm lackey

Peter Bazalgette?

This is the arse who thought Phorm was a good idea?

I'll pay to watch programmes I want to see, I'll put up with ads to watch programmes I want to see, but I will not, under any circumstances, be "phormed" to watch something.

If there is anything I want to watch that is only distributed under Bazalgette's model I'll just get it from BitTorrent and feel completely and morally justified in doing so.

Grenade. Chew on this, Bazalgette!

A fully considered response

"where people trade their personal information for the chance to watch TV programmes"

Well they are idiots then.

At best, delusional...

"users should have an absolute right to reclaim their data from anyone they have handed it over to"...

Indeed, if there's one thing we've learned, it's how easy it is to remove digital data from marketing databases. Those 'click to unsubscribe' things really do work, and it's easy to stop people tracking what you're doing on the web. Trivial, in fact.

What worries me is that someone might listen to this person. I suspect they will.

I suspect a few years ago if you'd have asked the El Reg readership if they'd believe that a successful TV programme could be based on just watching the daily routine of social misfits put in a house together, the answer would have been a resounding "no"...

Sixty channels of rubbish prove this?

Nah. Sixty channels of rubbish prove what I've maintained for thirty years - there's enough talent in this country to support four, maybe five channels.

Obviously the channel execs think that *someone* is watching the crap, the repeats, the wall to wall chat shows and 'advertainment' and shopping channels - but I'm not sure I'd want to see in their houses.

Of course, when they cut my head off it will say 'BBC' down my neck.

well if it was good TV.....

I'd give up keeping secret my favorite colour / food / shop / whatever...

...if it meant they brought back Firefly! anything less fkoff

A pox!

TV advertisers seem to like shooting themselves in the foot. The practice of raising the output volume during ad breaks means that now the TV is muted at each ad break or paused and ffw'd through - either way their "messages" are lost due to this unnecessary and intrusive fiddling.

Advertisers (like lawyers) are a pox on modern humanity. Liars and hypocrites all.

Grenade - the message that needs to be delivered to all the ad agencies

Been there, done that ...

"... a game show that allows competitors to show the body parts they're most unhappy with and compete for reconstructive surgery, either privately or on the NHS."

It's been done. How could you have missed Bridalplasty, a show so god-awful no sane person could have invented it? See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/show/bridalplasty

I don't care who Peter Bazalgette is ...

... never heard of him before and I don't care about his ancestry. I do care about what he's suggesting and about whether anyone thinks it's a good idea.

It doesn't sound plausible unless programmes are provided only through the internet or through internet-enabled televisions. So that's a route they'd have to force us down.

But what the fuck : if the price of admission is to give anyone information on myself (and I thought having to give name & address in order to by a television was bad enough), I'll find something more productive to do with my time.

You watch TV !!!

Discover the ultimate digital interface storage device. Its called a book and is gesture controlled. Use finger to change page.

In the antipodes the TV is also bad. I believe Kiwi land is worse. But then, on the web sites like Fiends reunited, Facerook and such tat popular, does crap TV have a different audience ? I have retreated to more ancient entertainments. Nothing like reading about something that the chronologically challenged believe is modern in a 1600 year old book. I also wonder if the over 25 net user only has a few preferred sites and ignore anything else until a trusted source has a link to follow ? Just like TV watchers with a few favourite programs and not much else.