See he says you need a vpn for netflix, but you could just do that with the problem service that was originally in question.
Interesting watch, but the reason BBC iPlayer is geo-blocked is because it's not a free service. In the UK you can only use the iPlayer if you have a TV license, which costs £120 per year.
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;41262061]Interesting watch, but the reason BBC iPlayer is geo-blocked is because it's not a free service. In the UK you can only use the iPlayer if you have a TV license, which costs £120 per year.[/QUOTE]
how do they regulate that, if i plugged a TV up to an antenna what would happen?
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;41262104]how do they regulate that, if i plugged a TV up to an antenna what would happen?[/QUOTE]
They can tell who doesn't pay the license fee and who does
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;41262104]how do they regulate that, if i plugged a TV up to an antenna what would happen?[/QUOTE]
Two bobbies would turn up and take away your Welly-fishin' Telly Vision
[QUOTE=Indyclone77;41262198]They can tell who doesn't pay the license fee and who does[/QUOTE]
FYI those TV Detection vans are bullshit.
wait they have TV detector vans lmao
basically they just send letters to everyone's door saying "we know you've got a telly in there so you better send us money for it" regardless of whether you have or not. there's a slim chance that someone will come and knock on your door and say "let me in so that i can see you have a telly and then you can give me money for it" but you can just tell them to fuck off because they're not actually legally allowed to come into your house. also they'll probably try to tell you some lies about anything with iplayer available on it being taxable (ie every electronic device ever probably including toasters and kettles these days)
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;41262521]wait they have TV detector vans lmao[/QUOTE]
Yep, its easy to avoid the license fee anyway, you just have to never give your name out to them, and without that they cannot gain any kind of warrant to enter your home and check for a TV.
So from what I'm reading you can pretty much just close the door on them and continue watching freeview without having to pay a fee
does cable television cover that though?
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;41263261]So from what I'm reading you can pretty much just close the door on them and continue watching freeview without having to pay a fee
does cable television cover that though?[/QUOTE]
Since you unfortunately cannot opt out of the BBC's shit, yes you would 'need' it for cable or satellite TV too.
The BBC can go suck a dick over the TV licence, best thing is they actually tell you how to set shit up to just completely ignore them.
I don't see why they can't be government funded, the ABC and SBS, both government organizations with the SBS being mostly commercial have been funded by the government and nothing has fell short of their quality in programming.
Also SBS and ABC both get a good amount of content, ABC mostly gets their shit imported from channel 4 and the BBC whilst SBS relies off Comedy Central, adult swim and HBO
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;41262061]Interesting watch, but the reason BBC iPlayer is geo-blocked is because it's not a free service. In the UK you can only use the iPlayer if you have a TV license, which costs £120 per year.[/QUOTE]
Only watching live TV requires a TV license.
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;41262061]Interesting watch, but the reason BBC iPlayer is geo-blocked is because it's not a free service. In the UK you can only use the iPlayer if you have a TV license, which costs £120 per year.[/QUOTE]
I had a friend downloaded ExPat so he could watch live BBC coverage because NBC's coverage of the Olympics was terrible. Can anyone explain to me why that works?
[QUOTE=ewitwins;41266859]I had a friend downloaded ExPat so he could watch live BBC coverage because NBC's coverage of the Olympics was terrible. Can anyone explain to me why that works?[/QUOTE]
It probably just fools the iPlayer server into thinking you're connecting from a UK location.
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