On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: > The BBC has an iPlayer app that they were going to allow international > people to use for an annual fee, I guess they'll price it to take that > 30% hit without impacting profits and enjoy a much nicer profit margin > on the planned Android apps.
There's still all sorts of DRM and licensing issues for a lot of their content. You can't legally watch most of the content recorded or made available to British subjects on British soil unless you're also on British soil and subject to the same TV license fee system. Any content they have generated has to be licensed and packaged for export, if you're going to watch it somewhere else. This stems from the companies that actually produce the content in question and then license it to the BBC for presentation to legally licensed BBC listeners/viewers, and who then cut separate distribution deals for other markets. I'm not sure that there would be much to see on the BBC iPlayer in any international market. BBC news, probably. But what else? -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
