Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy
Maestro@fedia.io 1 week agoThey should start selling iPlayer licences to foreign people. I'd love to pay to watch BBC but they won't take my money. So now I give the money to a VPN company instead.
I tried using a VPN for iPlayer, and I was able to watch one episode of a show before it caught on and blocked me.
I had to create an account, including a fake address located in the UK. And even then, it didn’t work.
I’m curious how you’re doing it if you’re not having issues. Do you have to sign in?
Yes, we created an account with a fake address as well. We use NordVPN. Sometimes we have to switch exit nodes, but usually it works.
I use Mullvad and it seemed like they knew no matter how many servers I tried.
I just download stuff instead
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The problem here is that they are used to the model where they sell a license to say Sherlock for US audiences and it’s Netflix that buys that for a huge pile of cash. Could they probably make a lot more by cutting out the middle man? Sure, but then they’d have to support all those users directly.
tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Most of the content is sold abroad via BBC worldwide, which has different rules from the rest of BBC when it comes to profit.
The government under Cameron blocked the BBC turning iplayer into netflix back when that was still possible as the Conservatives hate the BBC even after they neutered it with many changes including making the license fee optional if you own a tv but don’t watch BBC or live tv.