Anger over BBC radio streaming changes

[K Richard Whitbread]

Chris Marriott <chris at chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote
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>-----Original Message----- From: CJB
>Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 9:28 PM
>To: c.e.macfarlane at macfh.co.uk
>Cc: get_iplayer ; David Cantrell
>Subject: Re: Anger over BBC radio streaming changes
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>>It is utterly unacceptable of the BBC to remove streams used by
>>devices upon which the poorly sighted and blind rely on. They are
>>licence payers too.
>...
>>Both of these cases are deliberately discriminatory and potentially
>>illegal. Indeed to demand payment of the licence fee for services no
>>longer available is tantamount to criminal fraud.
>
>I'm not minimising the problem, but note that we do not pay a licence 
>fee for radio, only for TV - you don't need a licence to listen to BBC 
>radio. The problem we're discussing here is, I believe, only something 
>that affects radio, so I don't think that the "we're licence fee 
>payers" argument is particularly valid.
>

To all - can I ask that such discussions be moved elsewhere as not 
entirely relevant to get_iplayer please?

Thank you
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Richard
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