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I'm in the UK and I am not allowed to view this page:

BBC Worldwide (International Site)

We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com.

I don't watch live TV so I don't pay the licence fee. Shouldn't I therefore be allowed to see this page?




Regardless of having a license fee or not (I do as while I don't watch live TV I do have a TV in the house and I like the BBC) I think license payers should be able to view this kind of content. Without the fee the BBC wouldn't exist (in its current form at least) to make projects the projects that aren't funded by the fees. Anyone have a mirror, please?


The BBC are not allowed to commercially compete in the UK, BBC worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC, so this content mustn't be shown in the UK.

But by having a commercial arm, the BBC can generate income from the rest of the world and provide more value to the licence fee payers.

So you want this to exist as it makes the homegrown BBC better, even if it's frustrating not to be able to read it.


Sorry, I should have been clearer. I understand why I can't see the content I just think the way it is set up is wrong. I appreciate the license fee doesn't cover the full cost of the BBC and that the commercial arms brings in an awful lot of money that the wider BBC benefits from, but it should be set up in a way that means license payers can see the content produced by the commercial arm.

In the same way the rest of world should (maybe can, not sure) be able to pay an annual fee to view the content that is aired on BBC in the UK.


There are very strict rules around the BBC and what it can do within the UK (showing adverts is the most obvious, but also fair trading rules around promoting for-profit entities). Lots of things will be blocked simply to avoid this.


You can read this (and any other BBC Worldwide article) by entering the url at http://archive.is.

Here's the link for this article: http://archive.is/lJkKW


Yeah, not sure what the revenue stream is. Why do they care? Anyway,tor is always two clicks away and is fine here, so whatever!


Just use tor




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