[Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

CJB chrisjbrady at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 00:11:31 PDT 2016


I assume that this also includes access to BBC 3 - mainly watched by
the youth (or pretend to be youth) generation whom I understand mainly
use smart phones?

So how will a login tied to a BBC license code tied to a fixed post
code location actually work?

Most youngsters will not have a license per se relying on their
respective parents' household licenses. And how does this affect their
access from various locations and post codes as they visit friends,
relatives, work locations, etc.? If a license code is tied to a post
code and said youngsters go travelling even just around the UK with
their ubiquitous smart phones - like they do in their millions - they
could all be committing an offence even unwittingly.

This mandatory login requirement might be OK for fixed location t.v.s
but what about smart phones and such as laptops / notebooks which by
definition are far from fixed in location?

I predict a huge rise in torrenting and seedboxes next year ...

CJB.



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