BBC iPlayer cracks down and blocks VPN users

[Mark Hammond]

I use a VPN when on holiday in France - if you had to login to the Iplayer  
with your TV licence number then this would get around this. I agree that  
people who don't pay shouldn't be getting the content.

Mark

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> So the point here is what. I pay the BBC license fee and am happy to do  
> so.
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> If people outside of UK who do not pay the license fee are getting BBC  
> content for nothing via a VPN or anything else they are stealing stuff I  
> pay for.
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> The BBC and all who support it are right to take action to preserve the  
> service for those who pay for it. There are enough threats to the BBC as  
> it is.
>
> If using a VPN in UK is blocking GIP or iPlayer or anything else surely  
> the solution is in the configuration of the VPN ?
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