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I always assumed this was part of the reason they developed iplayer. A trial run in order to offer the same thing overseas at a cost.

• Zenst 14y ago
  Initialy no and it was never planned as such. I have not use iPlayer for many years now and was somewhat put of with the amount of network overhead it would impose for days after closing with requests for cached content from other users clients who still had your IP cached as active. Was akin to running a popular torrent and seeding for a while then suddenly stopping, only more so. I have no idea what it is like now and even if the option to pay for content or to login via account is there. But would not be hard to add given they have the content managment side fully tested now. If it was not on there agenda initialy then your certainly right nowadays or at least it would be silly not to look at that opertunity to tap into overseas content base directly. Though they would need to have people login as currently I would hate to think how many VPN to get a UK'ish IP to use the service currently. Interesting times ahead.