Request for BBC Contact - OT

[S Byers]

So the dearth of available BBC material overseas for ex-pats and others encourages sharing and trading. No surprises there.

Yet the Beeb's response is to close the international iPlayers, close the online Shop and geo-block the Store.

Regarding older programmes (many wiped) it issues Take Down Orders to OTR sites, it enforces by legal threats the closure of torrent sites like RadioArchive and TB, and wastes millions in an abortive digitisation project of what archives it has.

Many episodes of series and programmes are missing. Offers of copies of these are refused.

Yet the demand is there and it is met by the sharing technologies of the day. No surprises there.

SB 







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On Wed, 6/4/16, artisticforge . <artisticforge at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Request for BBC Contact - OT
 To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
 Date: Wednesday, 6 April, 2016, 4:04
 
 Hello
 
 I have come upon several cases of current BBC copyrighted
 material
 being offered for free download on the internet & not by
 the BBC.
 
 One case is offering all 11 Series of Inspector McLevy the
 BBC Radio 4 Drama.
 Another case is a Podcast listing on the iTunes Store also
 offering
 the Inspector McLevy & Paul Temple episodes for free
 download.
 
 I am looking for a contact who takes there violations
 seriously and
 takes action against them.
 I am tired of the standard BBC e-mail because nothing ever
 happens.
 
 
 -- 
 terry l. ridder ><>
 
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