Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > > David Wright writes: > > > I'm hoping that the current discussions regarding its unsustainability > > > end up in some sort of subscription model, whereupon there's no reason > > > to disqualify people overseas. [...] > We are talking about the ordinary broadcasting, which is available to UK > living Licence payers. (Or Licence non-payers, David. ;-) ) > > Not everything is available after the event on iPlayer anyway. But they try > to ensure - unsuccessfully - that only Licence payers get any of it.
The iplayer is available to anyone in the UK, regardless of whether they have a paid a licence fee or not. That's one of the reasons the current scheme is so unfair. > They > control the Licence very badly, and we need a new model. How can you > reasonably ensure, with today's technology, that someone only watches > television live on a TV? I think you need to phrase that the other way round. If you watch or record *any* live TV, you need a licence. If you only acquire the programmes after a delay (streamed or downloaded *after* the broadcast), then you don't need a licence. (Am I right in thinking they only recently moved PVRs into the licence requirement? We still have three though their contents are all from our fee-paying days.) Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150809001540.GC11382@alum