9 Apr
2010
9 Apr
'10
4:45 p.m.
The whole T&C with the BBC iPlayer are a bit cr*p to be honest. As far
as I can tell, they have limited broadcasting TV to the UK on the
assumption that 90+% of people in the UK have a license, and have
therefore paid for the content. People outside the UK will not have paid
the TV license, and therefore shouldn't get it.
It just shows how antiquated the television license is. There's no
reason in my mind why we couldn't pay the BBC a subscription (i.e. the
annual TV license) which can then be associated with an online
"household" account, with the possibility of creating individual
accounts for each member of that household. You could then log into
iPlayer from anywhere in the world, the Beeb could see that you've paid
for the content, and allow you to stream away. I get really peeved when
I'm on holiday and want to catch up on the latest Top Gear, but the BBC
tell me I'm not allowed - grrr...!
I guess there's probably the bandwidth costs of streaming large amounts
of data outside the UK as another factor, but I'm pretty sure it's the
licensing one that's the main problem.
Here's to a 21st Century licensing model for the BBC...
Paul
On 09/04/2010 15:25, Mathew Newton wrote:
On Thu, April 8, 2010 1:46 pm, Ander Punnar wrote:
I don't live in UK and I maybe want to stream
BBC web streams over ssh.
It was illegal before the law (te-hee), but now, according to the law,
"ISPs
that fail to apply technical measures against subscribers can be fined up
to
£250,000".
So, what now? BitFolk will start to monitor traffic and when certain
clients
try to access BBC web streams, then they will get very angry letter saying
that they have been naughty?
I'd be curious as to what Bitfolk could possibly do to detect such
usage?
If the remote user (outside the UK) is connecting to the VPS over SSH then
his traffic is unmonitorable... the only monitorable connection would be
between the BBC and the VPS which, given the UK termination point, is of
course entirely legal.
One would hope that any apparent correspondance between incoming/outgoing
throughput rates at any given time would have to be considered as nothing
more than circumstantial evidence.
Mathew
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