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Given that the BBC has failed to offer their own solution for the many British and other people living abroad or with second homes abroad who would be intereste
by globalise83 1y ago
Given that the BBC has failed to offer their own solution for the many British and other people living abroad or with second homes abroad who would be interested in accessing their content, and instead driven us to consume a small subset of their content through Netflix, my sympathy is limited.
- ViscountPenguin 1y agoIs Britbox not available in your country? Here in Australia it has relatively high market penetration even.
- fy20 1y agoNo OP, but I'm in a smallish EU country and it's not available here.
- rubitxxx3 1y agoIn the US and watch Britbox and Acorn at least as much as other providers now. We watch a lot of Aussie and British shows, new and old, color and B/W. The BBC made really great shows. If they go under, it’s a shame. I would pay tax to help the BBC keep going. I’d pay the Aussies, too, if they’re not getting comp’d.
- arp242 1y agoBritBox is available in a very limited set of countries: Australia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United States.
- permo-w 1y agojust change your dns to a UK server
- swores 1y agoYou're mixing up different bits of tech, streaming services (like BBC's iPlayer) don't care (or know) what DNS servers you're using. To get around their geo-blocking you need to change your IP address, either by using a VPN service or a proxy server.
- permo-w 1y agowhy say something if you quite clearly don't actually know anything about the thing you're saying? do you really think I'm saying this without having done this myself many times? without it being a well-known and well-publicised method?
- swores 1y agoedit: deleting this comment rather than keep editing it to go with your edits. Please research how geo-blocking works.
- permo-w 1y agomy friend I will ask you again: why are you saying this if you haven't actually tried it? google it if you don't believe me. I have used the technique many times, and just because you think geoblocking works one way does not mean that it actually does
- swores 1y agoIf it worked for you, that could be because when you changed your DNS server you also changed your public IP, or possibly because you used a service that doesn't just provide DNS but also caches content meaning you were accessing it without touching the BBC's servers. There just isn't any aspect of BBC's geo blocking that cares what DNS servers you use, and if you go spend 5 minutes on Google looking into how geo-blocking works you won't find anyone talking about DNS servers being relevant. I can't speak to your personal experience as I wasn't there, but I do have experience on the side of actually doing geo-blocking so I can say with confidence how that works. Apart from anything, the website / streaming service literally doesn't have any way of knowing what country your DNS server is in... the DNS server is just the thing that your computer asks "where does bbc.co.uk point to?" and it replies with the IP address for that domain. From the BBC's point of view your visit looks identical regardless of which DNS server gave that answer. There are ways of doing geo-blocking that are more complicated than just IP address (though BBC doesn't use them, it just goes on IP address), but none of them involve DNS.
- rwmj 1y ago£5/mo VPS and get_iplayer?
- walthamstow 1y agoThis is how I watched Match of the Day from Japan for months
- azuanrb 1y agoUnfortunately that's the reality. I'm into Doctor Who but in Asia it's pretty much impossible to watch it through any legal means.
- 1317 1y agothe new new one is meant to be available on disney plus not sure about the others though
- anthk 1y agoTor Browser, set the exit Node to one from the United Kingdom and disable JavaScript.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoWhy we love HN.