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Zattoo is illegal because they are planning to insert advertisements in between moving from channel to channel, and in the UK advertising is not allowed on BBC channels because we the British public pay the license fee.

See: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/08/tv_unfestiv... ...and... http://informitv.com/articles/2008/05/09/zattooclaimscopyrig...

Quote: In a statement the BBC said: “We have not entered into any formal agreements with Zattoo to redistribute BBC channels”. ITV said: “We wouldn’t rule out third party deals, but there aren’t any in place at the moment”. Channel 4 said: “We don’t have any formal arrangements with Zattoo”. Five said: “The inclusion of the Five service on Zattoo has not been authorised or licenced by Five”.

Zattoo is illegal (in the UK), as it doesn't have any partnerships with the TV channels as well as the fact that we have to pay a license fee and the TV Licensing people can't track "illegal" users of the service.

And to be honest, TV is crap. Here in the UK we have online catchup services for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 only Five is missing a catchup service. And if you want to watch live news coverage BBC News (24) streams video via the BBC site.

I make it a point NOT to read TechCrunch.

Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202509

too be honest, i liked it before, not to keen on the new design too much white space for my liking.

And your view is exactly why the USA is 37th on The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems, below countries like Colombia (GDP $337.286 billion), Chile (GDP $163.792 billion) and Costa Rica (GDP $56.777 billion). The USA's GDP is $13.794 trillion. At least you beat the communists (Cubans) by three places...

sorry, I didn't want this to turn "political" (I don't think this is the right setting), and not for one minute do I think the NHS is the be all and end all, but for someone in my position (a person with a serious medical condition) I don't think I could survive (financially and probably health-wise) in the US.

So I'm glad that I live in a country which contributes as a whole towards the nations health.

Update: LPTS says we should get political, so lets.

Although this won't help you (unless you're considering moving to the UK ;)) but I'm glad that we've got the NHS (National Health Service) just looking at some of these costs, $300 a month for health insurance! it makes my head spin.

For me if the UK didn't have free health care then I would be probably be paying a lot for all the health care (for a fact I know some medicines I take cost the NHS thousands of pounds a month to buy).

Not to put a downer on things. Good luck setting up your own business.

because it doesn't add anything to the "conversation"...

hopefully no one here will rise to your bait.

I use BBEdit, it's expensive but It's the only text editor I feel comfortable using.

agreed I've pirated s/w which would have been to expensive to buy purely to learn new skills, however I suppose, I was lucky when I was taking my first steps with Photoshop my uncle bought me a copy.

to put it simply Vitamins do not work. Why not have a walk into town at lunch time?

thanks for this one, have just started to download them all now.

that's probably true, but heck you've got to do something to quench the boredom.

If you're talking business books try The Rebel Sell "How the counter culture became the consumer culture". and I book I love for it's story telling is Boo Hoo "$135 million. 18 months... a dot.com story from concept to catastrophe".

Okay, if you enjoy history try The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (Volume 1) - each volume is around 48hrs each, it might sound like a lot of hours listening but it's a great book and taught me a lot about Roman history.

If you're into sci-fi try the old BBC radio series Journey into Space, Operation Luna (the first in the series).

Before I can really concentrate everything has to be just right, I also like to go for a walk before I get started just to clear my head, a regular pattern of sleep helps too (need I mention a healthy diet?).