The legislation was changed such that a licence is needed to watch any content on iPlayer. This was the whole 'iplayer hole' stuff which hit the news a few yea

The legislation was changed such that a licence is needed to watch any content on iPlayer. This was the whole 'iplayer hole' stuff which hit the news a few years ago. The Beeb were hoping to have the various commercial streaming services covered by the licence requirement, but failed - in part as it would break/invalidate the operating model for those commercial services.