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“Inevitable” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this comment
by alexsereno 3y ago
“Inevitable” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this comment
- ta1243 3y agoInevitable in that people in charge of the BBC want to prove that people (specifically an appropriate cross-section of the British public) use the BBC to keep the funding secure
- robertlagrant 3y agoThey could do that by entering the 21st century and having an IP-locked subscription system.
- Evidlo 3y agoHow does that get them subscription estimates?
- robertlagrant 3y agoThen they can make sure people in the UK have a subscription account.
- toyg 3y agoBecause every house has a single, unchangeable IP...? You clearly never worked in an ISP.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI definitely did not work at an ISP. But what I said doesn't require a static IP per house. Just GeoIP so non-UK residents are treated differently (unless they VPN).
- toyg 3y agoThe target is not to determine whether the client is in the UK, but whether the client is a specific license-payer or at a specific address. GeoIP doesn't help to get either of those datapoints.
- ta1243 3y agoEnforced by a proprietary app?
- robertlagrant 3y agoYes, called iPlayer[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer
- ta1243 3y agoOr Sounds which is basically the audio version of iplayer
- robertlagrant 3y agoNo; inevitable is a claim, not a support.