BBC shuts off iPlayer to UK VPNs (theregister.co.uk)

4 points by grahamel 10y ago ↗ HN

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Is there merit for a lawsuit? There are legitimate reasons to use UK VPN from UK. And there will be at least couple of persons that are affected.

viraptor 10y ago ↗

Lawsuit about what? Company providing service on their own terms? I don't think the TV license requires them to provide iplayer at all (only TV as in TV).

jaziek 10y ago ↗

How? Will it simply use the public IP address space of the popular VPN providers to identify users of these services? I can't see any way they could know if I had a VPS hosted somewhere in the UK and tunneled through that myself.