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I've never used a VPN, but when I try to watch BBC iPlayer on either my phone, iPad or smart TV, via my WiFi, iPlayer thinks I'm in a different country.
A simple check on IP info sites shows my IP is based in the UK. My Internet provider have said its not their fault, but that they do reuse IP addresses from abroad, so maybe this is what the BBC is thinking constitutes a foreigner trying to access their content. I've basically been told to report it to the BBC but they're not replying.
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The amount of restrictions and problems with BBC iPlayer has become too much.
Seems if you’re using a proxy, or any form of IP clocking even if the IP address you give them is a UK based it won’t allow it. Some idiot has decided they should ban all proxies and cloaks.
Goodbye iPlayer, my privacy is worth more than sone old Miranda episodes.  |
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"The amount of restrictions and problems with BBC iPlayer has become too much.
Seems if you’re using a proxy, or any form of IP clocking even if the IP address you give them is a UK based it won’t allow it. Some idiot has decided they should ban all proxies and cloaks.
Goodbye iPlayer, my privacy is worth more than sone old Miranda episodes. "
Man in Dubai is annoyed that he can’t circumvent the security designed to stop people outside the UK watching iPlayer 
If I was the Beeb and I actively wanted to cut back on overseas access then I would block any IP if I knew it came from a proxy or VPN. IPs don’t really have a “location” - the router they come from does - but if a known proxy was claiming to to be from the “UK” then I would block it because clearly, as you have pointed out, it is being used to bypass the desired restriction. |
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"The amount of restrictions and problems with BBC iPlayer has become too much.
Seems if you’re using a proxy, or any form of IP clocking even if the IP address you give them is a UK based it won’t allow it. Some idiot has decided they should ban all proxies and cloaks.
Goodbye iPlayer, my privacy is worth more than sone old Miranda episodes.
Man in Dubai is annoyed that he can’t circumvent the security designed to stop people outside the UK watching iPlayer
If I was the Beeb and I actively wanted to cut back on overseas access then I would block any IP if I knew it came from a proxy or VPN. IPs don’t really have a “location” - the router they come from does - but if a known proxy was claiming to to be from the “UK” then I would block it because clearly, as you have pointed out, it is being used to bypass the desired restriction."
It’s actually not ethical to filter based on IP address. IP addresses were not designed to be used for security or profiling.
Many forms of Geo tagging are now barred. Everyone has the right to use the Internet without being profiled.
My issue with BBC iPlayer is nothing to do with circumvention, they are just old school. Netflix and Prime manage to have a subscription-based service that people can use anywhere in the world and they handle content licensing on individual content items.
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"The amount of restrictions and problems with BBC iPlayer has become too much.
Seems if you’re using a proxy, or any form of IP clocking even if the IP address you give them is a UK based it won’t allow it. Some idiot has decided they should ban all proxies and cloaks.
Goodbye iPlayer, my privacy is worth more than sone old Miranda episodes.
Man in Dubai is annoyed that he can’t circumvent the security designed to stop people outside the UK watching iPlayer
If I was the Beeb and I actively wanted to cut back on overseas access then I would block any IP if I knew it came from a proxy or VPN. IPs don’t really have a “location” - the router they come from does - but if a known proxy was claiming to to be from the “UK” then I would block it because clearly, as you have pointed out, it is being used to bypass the desired restriction.
It’s actually not ethical to filter based on IP address. IP addresses were not designed to be used for security or profiling.
Many forms of Geo tagging are now barred. Everyone has the right to use the Internet without being profiled.
My issue with BBC iPlayer is nothing to do with circumvention, they are just old school. Netflix and Prime manage to have a subscription-based service that people can use anywhere in the world and they handle content licensing on individual content items.
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100% agree that the Beeb should have a subscription based service for non licence fee payers.
In fact what they actually should have is a subscription service _for_ licence fee payers and then they will be filtering and profiling _exactly_ like Netflix and Prime do: no pay, no access.
That said even Netflix and Prime do not offer access to everything everywhere - you still have content that cannot be shown in certain locations due to commercial rights so your nirvana of unfettered access doesn’t actually apply anyway. All that has changed is that you are blocked via the home address of your credit card rather than the IP of the proxy you are using. |
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