I never tried the live streams - the time difference was inconvenient enough. Live content gets licensed differently to the catch-up content, which you can vie

I never tried the live streams - the time difference was inconvenient enough. Live content gets licensed differently to the catch-up content, which you can view without paying the license fee. Given catch-up is usually more restricted (some programmes unavailable for example) I imagine the only reason Limelight is globally accessible is because that's the default mode of operation and the iPlayer website is considered a sufficient region restriction mechanism.