Today’s complaint to the BBC:
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8175410.stm:
“Programmes will be streamed without DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection but will only be available to people with a UK web address.”
Assuming you are using the common convention of referring to URLs as ‘web addresses’, this statement implies that the programmes will only be viewable by people who have a personal website which is based in the UK. This is clearly absurd.
Instead I imagine the correct phrase is “IP address” or, for the non-technical, “Internet address”, which refers to the unique number associated with your Internet connection.
As it stands, the article is stating something which is markedly different from fact.
Of course I didn’t complain about the fact that they didn’t disclose the MS spokesperson used to be head of the iPlayer at the Beeb…