BBC iPlayer cracks down and blocks VPN users

[Paul Turvey]

I have no need to worry about VPN as I can use another method if I am 
overseas.

I run a home server with a domain name and a DNS scheme that gets around 
a dynamic IP address. All I need to do therefore is SSH into the box 
using the FQDN and issue whatever GiP commands are necessary.. Fedora btw.

Paul

On 12/10/15 15:09, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 12:09:17PM +0100, CJB wrote:
>
>> Also I do know that many friends are ex-pats living overseas in warmer
>> climes over the British winter. They are all BBC licence fee payers.
> There's nothing stopping them from running a private VPN end-point at
> home, or running get_iplayer on a machine in the UK.
>
>> They have now been cut off from accessing what they have already paid
>> in advance for - use of iPlayer.
> They're also cut off from accessing other things that they're paying for
> too. How strange that they don't moan "I live on the Costa Del Fake Tan
> for the winter but I still have to pay for my bins to be emptied at
> home!"
>