Yes, but the regulations are best explained using free as the example because for a significant amount of the work they are not legally allowed to charge or (e.

Yes, but the regulations are best explained using free as the example because for a significant amount of the work they are not legally allowed to charge or (e.g.) show adverts. The practical reality is that you can replace "free" with "below cost". Unless this was funded entirely from worldwide, it would be using a source of funding not available to others. > Now sure the BBC may have had some advantage over nascent offerings at the time (2007), but let's face these realistically didn't exist in the UK Yes, which is again kind of the point - there was a space for offerings to come in and compete against each other. The ruling was that Kangaroo would likely stop this competition, including stopping competition between the BBC/ITV/C4. There was still a fight to get YouView past the competition stage (canvas back when I worked on the apps, AS2 & constrained video memory was... interesting).