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What a fabulous perversion of the licence fee concept! The fee is meant to enable the BBC to provide independent journalism in the UK, and so they now decide th

by swombat 15y ago

What a fabulous perversion of the licence fee concept! The fee is meant to enable the BBC to provide independent journalism in the UK, and so they now decide that something that's not funded by the fee is not available in the Uk??? How bizarrely stupid.

DanBC 15y ago
Region locking is not limited to only the BBC. Region locking is just run of the mill stupid.
- rhizome 15y ago
  Yeah, but locking out the region of origin is pretty comical.
  - thwarted 15y ago
    Worded like that reminds me of local blackouts of televised sporting events.
  - swombat 15y ago
    Locking out the region that pays most of your company's salaries is especially comical...
andyking 15y ago
The same goes for their BBC World TV channel. It is available on pan-European satellite within the UK but reception is, as far as I'm aware, actually illegal (or at least breaking the terms of the TV licence) as it contains advertising. The channel is actually quite good--I've watched it in the US quite a lot, to keep up with news from home, but it is a slightly weird feeling sometimes to see "this BBC news programme is brought to you by 1st Source Bank." (I believe it is relayed by a local / regional public TV channel where my partner lives, so this sponsor tag could be added by them.) Incidentally, if you use the Opera Mini mobile browser to view the BBC News website, you see advertising on the page as it uses proxies in Norway and the US to compress the pages.