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I guess technically I'm paying for VPN service, but I would have been anyway, so I didn't buy something new. And, I'm not certain it's illegal. Are you? Is th
by sudonim 14y ago
I guess technically I'm paying for VPN service, but I would have been anyway, so I didn't buy something new.
And, I'm not certain it's illegal. Are you?
Is the legislation specific about where you must reside? What if you're consuming content but you're not in the UK?
If it is illegal for anyone to consume BBC content at the time of broadcast without a TV license regardless of location, what if someone outside of the UK paid for a TV License?
- brudgers 14y ago[IANAL] My understanding of copyright is that for events such as the Olympics, copyrights are often licensed licensed a country by country basis and that the retransmission of material across national boundaries is a violation. Doing so violates the author's right to control their work because it bipasses the arrangements the author has made to control their work. Incidently, this rests on the same legal principles upon which much of FOS software community operates (the license terms are merely different). However, I would recommend speaking with an attorney familiar with such matters.
- sudonim 14y agoI bought a TV License (updated the article) and here's the proof: https://img.skitch.com/20120729-8nkr9edjmm4966yt8qm1sfyg5t.png https://img.skitch.com/20120729-8nkr9edjmm4966yt8qm1sfyg5t.p... So, really now it should just be a question of the rights holder allowing me in the US to watch something broadcast in the UK that I paid for.