Video Podcasting can bring down 'the corporation'

So here is the thing: I dislike the BBC. Actually it goes further than that; as they say it is a thin line between love and hate. Something has been part of your life for 40 years and then you decide that a parting of ways is required. It would be easy to succumb to an irrational hatred. I have my reasons and they shall be set out at length in a future post. For now lets say that I see no reason to support an organisation which is antithetical to all I believe in.

So if you like me you live in the UK and are resolved not to pay the TV Licence Fee, you may be wondering what your options are. Firstly you could get rid of your television and make do with old fashioned ink on paper. Secondly you can just carry on watching. There are two schools of thought here, the principled approach is openly declaring your defiance and awaiting martyrdom; the less brave strategy is to make life difficult for the collection agency until eventually they give up and go away. However there is a third option based on a technology known as Video Podcasting. Legally you can download video from the internet and watch it without a TV Licence. This is an emerging technology and not entirely seamless but if you can get by in Microsoft Windows then you should consider this as a viable option.

Let me be up front, my objective is to bring down the BBC. Many of you will be wary of breaking the law and equally relucant to do without any form of television. If I can encourage you not to buy a TV licence then I will have made a useful contribution to making our society a better place.

This blog will be about video podcasting and its role in avoiding the TV Licence Fee. I aim to cover the practical, technical, political and legal aspects of this technology. Some discussion of the cultural and social aspects of podcasting will no doubt be included along the way. Discussion of programme content is extensively covered elsewhere and will be regarded as off topic. Any constructive input is welcome; technical expertise in particular. I am less than a month into this project and there is much to learn.

Within the blogosphere various terms have been used to describe the BBC (Biased Broadcasting Corporation is particularily apposite). Call it superstition if you will, but I would prefer not to call the thing by its given name. This blog therefore establishes a ground rule that the said state sponsored media organisation shall always be reffered to as 'the corporation'.