$0? Surely you've got to factor the cost of the boingboing.net domain name. web and email hosting and other resources in that?

I've written to the UK broadcast industry magazine, Broadcast about this (looks like it is going to be published in next week's edition).

What I've said is that it's about time broadcasters started serving the viewers rather than pandering to their content providers. Without the viewers, there would be no content to be watched.

The BBC's radio catch-up service is better. Nobody seems to batter an eyelid if people use audio capture systems such as Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack to capture the streams which, at least, are cross-platform under a number of different OSes. But video - oh my goodness, the BBC and content providers have multiple heart attacks if they discover people downloading them by a method they've not approved.

Very upsetting news. Yet, I've a feeling the man will probably outlive most of us just to spite his critics (mind you - if there are ANY critics of Terry Pratchett, I've yet to meet them - the man is a bloody good author).

I'm sure things will be okay, certainly with research and modern medicine. And it is an early diagnosis at that.