BBC To Stream Channel Live
Blog Comment You can watch iPlayer content without a licence, as long as it is not "live" content. So the new service as and when it arrives will need a licence, but the current iPlayer doesn't. And the iPlayer FAQs reveal the kind of nonsensical detail that we...
[June 9, 2008, 9:18]
This Could Help The BBC
Talkback In principle, this crack makes it possible for iPlayer content to be made available for all computing platforms. Ironically, this could actually help the BBC, who have been heavily critisized for funding a system out of the TV license that will be...
[July 18, 2007, 9:01]
BBC To Stream Channel Live
Blog As if the iPlayer wasn't enough. Aside from the bandwidth and usage-limit implications, this also raises, yet again, the spectre of the licence fee, its purpose and its enforceability. If someone has no telly but consumes Beeb content over the net...
[June 6, 2008, 16:25]
BBC Threatens IPlayer Hackers With Mild Annoyance
Blog Comment How many times have you heard the expression "That's my license fee they are spending" What if people around the world spent all their time watching the superior TV from the BBC (other good UK TV outlets are available) and didn't bother watching...
[June 10, 2008, 14:22]
Free == Invisible ?
Talkback Finally, your amazing assertion that if you don't pay a license fee for a piece of software then you cease to exist. If your logic was followed we would not have GSM, digital TV, the Internet etc etc.
[July 25, 2007, 22:06]
You What?
Talkback iPlayer and 4OD can't use much more than 15-20k/s. And sure, we pay the license fee, but this is added value. Sorry but that's complete garbage. What is Tiscali whingeing about? I can get 850k/s on my 8mb Sky broadband (IPStream not LLU), so around...
[January 29, 2008, 22:30]
