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Post by Famous Rocking Chimes on Jan 6, 2015 19:47:32 GMT -5
Good. It pisses me off that I am required by law to pay for the BBC every year, yet people abroad who don't have to pay that fee can mask themselves and watch content that I have essentially paid for without charge. I don't have a problem with paying for the BBC as I do think in terms of the amount of channels and radio channels you get for it are worth the cost. I also like the lack of adverts and them having to be unbiased in terms of whatever they broadcast on the news. I'm not keen on people bypassing region codes for things like Netflix but as I don't have to pay for it, I'm not as bothered. But in the case of the iPlayer, I have paid for the programming on there because the law says I have to. If anyone else wants to watch that programming, they should pay a fee. I mean no ill will to you man honestly, but that bit made me chuckle.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 6, 2015 20:38:21 GMT -5
Good. It pisses me off that I am required by law to pay for the BBC every year, yet people abroad who don't have to pay that fee can mask themselves and watch content that I have essentially paid for without charge. I don't have a problem with paying for the BBC as I do think in terms of the amount of channels and radio channels you get for it are worth the cost. I also like the lack of adverts and them having to be unbiased in terms of whatever they broadcast on the news. I'm not keen on people bypassing region codes for things like Netflix but as I don't have to pay for it, I'm not as bothered. But in the case of the iPlayer, I have paid for the programming on there because the law says I have to. If anyone else wants to watch that programming, they should pay a fee. I mean no ill will to you man honestly, but that bit made me chuckle. Don't see what's funny about it, they try to report anything in the news, even stuff that makes the BBC looks like arseholes (which happened quite a bit recently with all the Yewtree stuff). They could have shied away from that but didn't. I think the BBC is pretty unbiased towards any Political party, hence why they broadcast stuff from all of the main parties and does try to cater for a lot of different Religions. I don't want to go too deep into those two subjects as it's against the rules here but compared to other British News Broadcasters (Sky News particularly), the BBC Current Affairs department gets the balance right more often.
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Post by 67 more on Jan 7, 2015 2:31:57 GMT -5
Good. It pisses me off that I am required by law to pay for the BBC every year, yet people abroad who don't have to pay that fee can mask themselves and watch content that I have essentially paid for without charge. I don't have a problem with paying for the BBC as I do think in terms of the amount of channels and radio channels you get for it are worth the cost. I also like the lack of adverts and them having to be unbiased in terms of whatever they broadcast on the news. I'm not keen on people bypassing region codes for things like Netflix but as I don't have to pay for it, I'm not as bothered. But in the case of the iPlayer, I have paid for the programming on there because the law says I have to. If anyone else wants to watch that programming, they should pay a fee. But you don't need a TV licence to watch iPlayer content, you just need a licence for the livestreams.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 7, 2015 2:52:01 GMT -5
Good. It pisses me off that I am required by law to pay for the BBC every year, yet people abroad who don't have to pay that fee can mask themselves and watch content that I have essentially paid for without charge. I don't have a problem with paying for the BBC as I do think in terms of the amount of channels and radio channels you get for it are worth the cost. I also like the lack of adverts and them having to be unbiased in terms of whatever they broadcast on the news. I'm not keen on people bypassing region codes for things like Netflix but as I don't have to pay for it, I'm not as bothered. But in the case of the iPlayer, I have paid for the programming on there because the law says I have to. If anyone else wants to watch that programming, they should pay a fee. But you don't need a TV licence to watch iPlayer content, you just need a licence for the livestreams. I know that but it's not really the point I'm trying to make. I pay for the content on there, regardless of whether it's livestream or previously broadcast by the BBC. Why should people elsewhere in the World get that for free without adverts? When I lived in the USA, i enquired about being able to pay a fee and have access to the iPlayer there (and judging by their response, quite a few ex-Pats wanted to do the same so they could keep up with shows rather than waiting to see if it was picked up by BBC America and butchered by adverts) but they said it wasn't possible. They're missing a trick there. And completely off-topic but as you're a Rik Mayall fan, did you see the Man Down Christmas special? I thought it was a perfect tribute and I lost it at the end.
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Post by Boo! on Jan 7, 2015 2:55:13 GMT -5
But that's such a "pretend it's still 1993" attitude. You can't turn back the clock. The music industry realised this. You're not going to stop people accessing what they want so make as much as you can available for them to pay you for or they'll only go elsewhere and the content producers will get squat. Find a stream of any channel/movie/sports event isn't very difficult.
It's not as if the alternative is pay for it on a streaming service or don't watch it at all.
Besides people ARE paying the same as anyone else for Netflix they just don't live in the same location. It's no different than ordering import jeans from store in the US because even with shipping it's cheaper than UK prices. The same 'crime' is being committed.
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Post by 67 more on Jan 7, 2015 3:01:46 GMT -5
But you don't need a TV licence to watch iPlayer content, you just need a licence for the livestreams. I know that but it's not really the point I'm trying to make. I pay for the content on there, regardless of whether it's livestream or previously broadcast by the BBC. Why should people elsewhere in the World get that for free without adverts? When I lived in the USA, i enquired about being able to pay a fee and have access to the iPlayer there (and judging by their response, quite a few ex-Pats wanted to do the same so they could keep up with shows rather than waiting to see if it was picked up by BBC America and butchered by adverts) but they said it wasn't possible. They're missing a trick there. And completely off-topic but as you're a Rik Mayall fan, did you see the Man Down Christmas special? I thought it was a perfect tribute and I lost it at the end. On-topic: I'm getting what you're saying, but I don't pay for a TV licence (I watch EVERYTHING via the internet) but I can still access it, just got to wait for it to go on VOD. Isn't what I do exactly the same? Off-topic: As previously mentioned, I don't watch TV, so had no idea that show existed. Looks like I'm having a little trip to 4OD.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 7, 2015 3:10:36 GMT -5
I know that but it's not really the point I'm trying to make. I pay for the content on there, regardless of whether it's livestream or previously broadcast by the BBC. Why should people elsewhere in the World get that for free without adverts? When I lived in the USA, i enquired about being able to pay a fee and have access to the iPlayer there (and judging by their response, quite a few ex-Pats wanted to do the same so they could keep up with shows rather than waiting to see if it was picked up by BBC America and butchered by adverts) but they said it wasn't possible. They're missing a trick there. And completely off-topic but as you're a Rik Mayall fan, did you see the Man Down Christmas special? I thought it was a perfect tribute and I lost it at the end. On-topic: I'm getting what you're saying, but I don't pay for a TV licence (I watch EVERYTHING via the internet) but I can still access it, just got to wait for it to go on VOD. Isn't what I do exactly the same? Off-topic: As previously mentioned, I don't watch TV, so had no idea that show existed. Looks like I'm having a little trip to 4OD. Check it out, Rik Mayall wasn't in it that much but he was so good in it, they were going to give him much more to do in the second series. Sadly, he died before they got a chance to make it and as they were adamant they couldn't re-cast the role, they went a different route. Greg Davies writes and stars in it and he idolised Rik from a young age, so getting him to play his dad in a show was the best thing.
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Post by Hurbster on Jan 7, 2015 8:00:21 GMT -5
All the people saying this is just the big mean studios being big and mean and picking on Netflix need to keep in mind as well, Netflix is also a big problem. Netflix being the only major streaming service that puts up different movies/shows in different countries and puts up and removes content is a bigger problem for VPNs than this- since Netflix's prices are similar around the world, if you're getting the same content worldwide as you would for other services, there's no real need to use a VPN to get around it. But you are not getting the same service. UK netflix is shite compared to the US one.
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