BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to watch to catch up with their favourite shows

[Rob Wood]

Have a look at this

http://publicsectortenders.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40256&theme=PublicSectorTenders

Rob

On 14/05/2016 15:33, Kevin Lynch wrote:
> The "problem" from BBC revenue collection point of view is that
> "students" and other licence "abstainers" are using the catchup
> iplayer loophole to forego paying the licence fee. The way the system
> works today is that they assume everyone in the country has to have a
> licence and then they send people to check out the deniers. As part of
> the "negotiations" the government was even proposing to make it a
> civil rather than criminal offence to not have a TV licence. This
> would have diminished the stick for people who don't pay TV licence
> and caused the BBC to lose revenue and increase cost of revenue
> collection.  I think that is the simplest and most cost effective way
> of doing it today given the current regulatory/technical
> infrastructure and focus on cost of operation.
>
> I don't think the proposed changes will have any short to medium term
> impact on GiP.
>
> In the announcement it is proposed that the licence fee system will be
> extended another 11 years. Towards the end I could imagine that they
> would pilot some business process to migrate licence fee payers to
> "family" or "household" subscriptions (like today's
> iTunes/Google/Microsoft/Netflix subscription plans). This would
> probably require primary legislation at the time.
>
> The clues that these changes  would be coming would be a requirement
> to use a BBC id to access iPlayer content. The tieing of the id to a
> licence fee, restricting devices per BBC id. Given the knowhow and
> expertise of contributors here. We'll have at least 12-36 months of
> these sorts of changes/
>
> regards
>
> Kevin
>
> On 13 May 2016 at 17:33, James Scholes <james at jls-radio.com> wrote:
>> CJB wrote:
>>> ... snip ...
>> All very good content, but I fail to see how it answers, or even
>> addresses, the OP's question.  From a purely technical point of view, he
>> was interested whether new measures to prevent viewers from watching the
>> iPlayer without a valid TV license would have an impact on the
>> downloading of programs with get_iplayer.  The possible lockdown of BBC
>> streams has very little to do with politics and highjacking the thread
>> is just bad form, even if the content is worthy of attension.
>> --
>> James Scholes
>> http://twitter.com/JamesScholes
>>
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