...when there is good, reliable, 3g coverage or better everywhere, and when data charges (especially when roaming abroad) are negligible. But frankly, the places I most need GPS are where coverage is poor and roaming charges are high.

Sorry. I did mean second, of course. But then not being American and being home from a long day, I got my numbers mixed! If only one could correct....

Mind you, maybe the mistake is satire in itself! (Though not deliberate, I'll be the first to admit)

And Americans can each have one under their First Amendment Rights, no? It's what Franklin would have wanted....

It reminds me of what a friend who works doing IT for big banks is fond of saying:

"Nothing beats the bandwidth of a lorry full of tape travelling up the M1"

I was going to post a comment on their website, but they will only allow comments from "Supporters".

These guys just can't have it both ways. Either they want a licence fee that Google won't pay, in which case they must surely be happy to see the content blocked, or else they want to be on Google/Youtube's servers, in which case they are going to have to be flexible about the licence fee thing.

The completely unsustainable position is to say, as they seem to be, "you have to carry our content because that is good for our performers, but if you do you must pay this fee."