BBC blocking articles from UK residents
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BBC blocking articles from UK residents
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#3I noticed this the other week when there was a link from fark.com
It's utterly ludicrous.
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#4The BBC are prohibited from running certain commercial services (of which BBC.com is one) in the UK due to regulatory requirements.
It's not their decision.
You could of-course lobby your MP to get it changed, but I imagine there would be substantial opposition from both supporters and opponents of public media services to allowing BBC to run commercial services in the UK.
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#5A BBC Worldwide spokesman said: [...]
'Under the BBC’s Fair Trading rules commercial websites are not allowed to receive unfair promotion from the BBC’s public services.
'This prevents us from being able to provide Future content on BBC.co.uk. genres.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208251/Global-BBC-w... (daily mail, so you have to scroll way down past the righteous indignation to get the facts)
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#6I've read the reason several times and I still don't get it.
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#7THIS!
In the last few years the BBC have produced nothing but period dramas and drivel all of it aimed at the american market. Why make quality british programming for the British market any more when you can make a 'UK series' (6 eps) and make pure profit in the US market.
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#9THIS! In the last few years the BBC have produced nothing but period dramas and drivel all of it aimed at the american market. Why make quality british programming for the British market any more when you can make a 'UK series' (6 eps) and make pure profit in the US market.
So the BBC is no longer producing content for BBC 1 and 2 in the UK?
Don't be ridiculous.
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#10I don't know if any of the brits here have ever browsed the BBC from abroad - when I was at COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009 (being at a political gathering, I was on free wifi and news sites half the time) I was shocked to see the BBC news site with adverts on it!
I was laughed at by the Danes, Swedes and Canadians I was with, because obviously the BBC always had adverts on.
Seriously, if the law says the BBC can't show adverts in the UK, they should make ad-free versions of the sites available, not an error message.
In fact, the issue here doesn't even seem to be adverts - it's that its a bbc.com article instead of a bbc.co.uk one - i.e a commercial service that isn't allowed to receive "promotion" here. As long as they don't link to it from the UK sites, I don't see how they are "promoting" it; we all found that link from a 3rd party source (i.e. HN) and wanted to read it! :/