[Brekkie]

C4 are just pathetic.

Recent reports about the whole Susan Boyle thing showed that when copyrighted content is uploaded, YouTube will pay a small fee to the copyright holder for all content, not just that uploaded officially, so leaving clips uploaded by fans could bring in a stream of revenue without them having to do anything.


They just don't get what they're doing. When they left things alone clips spread around YouTube and around the net, and that results in interest being maintained and was reflected in the ratings for the main show.


This year they take a hardline on it, and along with the axing of the live feed they've just completely killed off a key source of viewers - the YouTube generation.


P.S. 4oD are adding thousands of hours of archive programming next month, all for free, but there has been no indication that Big Brother will be amongst them (indeed there is no indication it won't be either).

If it's available officially they have some sort of argument, but the majority of what Stentionhouse uploaded was archive materially not available to buy, and not repeated by any channel. And even if it was available in the UK, it wouldn't be in the rest of the world.