"So the dearth of available BBC material overseas for ex-pats and others encourages sharing and trading. No surprises there."
Not just BBC material for ex-pats. An American friend of mine (who used to live in London many years ago) asked me if I could provide him with the Doctor Who back-catalogue and also access to the BBC-screened versions as there are changes made to the versions shown on BBC America occasionally. There is a MASSIVE market for BBC material outside the UK - I wish that instead of knocking the BBC, the present muppets-at-the-top realised what a huge asset is was and promoted it around the world. GRRRR D -----Original Message----- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of S Byers Sent: 06 April 2016 10:19 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Request for BBC Contact - OT So the dearth of available BBC material overseas for ex-pats and others encourages sharing and trading. No surprises there. Yet the Beeb's response is to close the international iPlayers, close the online Shop and geo-block the Store. Regarding older programmes (many wiped) it issues Take Down Orders to OTR sites, it enforces by legal threats the closure of torrent sites like RadioArchive and TB, and wastes millions in an abortive digitisation project of what archives it has. Many episodes of series and programmes are missing. Offers of copies of these are refused. Yet the demand is there and it is met by the sharing technologies of the day. No surprises there. SB -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 6/4/16, artisticforge . <artisticfo...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Request for BBC Contact - OT To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Date: Wednesday, 6 April, 2016, 4:04 Hello I have come upon several cases of current BBC copyrighted material being offered for free download on the internet & not by the BBC. One case is offering all 11 Series of Inspector McLevy the BBC Radio 4 Drama. Another case is a Podcast listing on the iTunes Store also offering the Inspector McLevy & Paul Temple episodes for free download. I am looking for a contact who takes there violations seriously and takes action against them. I am tired of the standard BBC e-mail because nothing ever happens. -- terry l. ridder ><> _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
