Lack of Understanding

The JEP (Jersey’s Excuse for a Paper) has a report on the fact that the States of Jersey are blocking the BBCs live World Cup Streams because they’re worried the network won’t be able to cope.

Having used the States network I completely agree with the network admins, it wouldn’t be able to cope with even a small number of people watching the game.

Nothing wrong with the story in principle, unfortunatly it was written by the JEP, which means that it is completely sensationalist, totally anti-BBC and shockingly wrong in so many ways.

To start with the article says states workers can’t watch the match on the BBC website because it might stop States websites working.

This is the first piece of nonsense in the story, it suggests that if people watch the World Cup on the BBC website it will stop gov.je, jerseyairport.com and jersey.com working.

I mean seriously - either the States are completely moronic in having their webservers on the same network as their workstations or the JEP has the wrong end of the stick completely.

Second idiotic point is where they say “However the staff are free to watch matches on other websites should they choose to do so”.

As far as I’m aware no other broadcasters are actually showing World Cup Games (at least legally) online and if they are then it will have exactly the same effect as watching it on the BBC servers.

My thinking here is that the JEP are confusing reading a report on a website with watching a full match in high quality broadband, but then again they still haven’t got round to having permalinks on their site so I won’t say anything.

One other point worth picking is that they say the advice was sent pri arily due to the England match being played this afternoon, attributed to Moya Fenoughty from the Chief Ministers department.

However the JEP should have seen through that and realised that the BBC weren’t actually showing the England game, it was an ITV game and the BBC are only broadcasting games online they have the rights to show on TV.

To be honest the whole thing was a nonsense story from the beginning, it’s common sense that companies without a massive pipe to the net would want to block live web streams (most do it for things like Big Brother as well) and the BBC even published a feed list for IT managers to block.

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