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- vault, on 12/18/2007, -11/+72Dugg but it's Mac, not MAC :-)
- peterjmag, on 12/18/2007, -4/+46Hey, look at that. I can't watch Top Gear from the US. I guess I'll go back to downloading it illegally via BitTorrent every week.
- doc99, on 12/18/2007, -11/+48Sorry for Linux and what?
- JasonCox, on 12/18/2007, -7/+43Dugg because my MAC Address has always needed this.
- garbanzo, on 12/18/2007, -1/+28Your Linux has to have a Media Access Control number to use the service. DUH!
- abbathdoom, on 12/18/2007, -1/+26I don't own a Mac and never have But even I cant stand it when people write MAC. It just stands out to me as the ultimate noob thing to do. Mac is not an acronym.
- Elderon, on 12/18/2007, -2/+27They really need to enable this for places outside the UK even if for a small fee. The bbc has some great programming and quite a bit of stuff I might watch but I can't because I live in the USA.
I think I read that it's because of licensing issues, but I would think a small fee per month or whatever would take care of that and if not, I already get all the content via bittorrent so it's their loss either way. Just thought it would be convinent to be able to watch shows from the web. - greebowarrior, on 12/18/2007, -3/+28it would show you it, if you lived in the UK (and therefore paid your TV licence)
- jamief00, on 12/18/2007, -6/+25Why should you get content that the British public have paid for?
- inactive, on 12/18/2007, -3/+20because it's good
- metapop, on 12/18/2007, -9/+26awesome, now if it would only let me see the actual show instead of "Sorry, this programme is only available to play in the UK"
- inactive, on 12/18/2007, -2/+16Holy crap, the submitter deliberately changed Mac to MAC.
Get off the internet now! - chris9902, on 12/18/2007, -0/+13I don't really mind it. I like BBC News and to keep adverts off that is worth the money.
- chris9902, on 12/18/2007, -0/+13You can pay my license fee if you want.
- plingboot, on 12/18/2007, -1/+13Unfortunately this is just a flash player, hardly the great linux/mac breakthrough that some people are making out.
For all the moaners wanting to watch this stuff outside the UK :
1. The UK tax payer pays for it, it's ours (and shouldn't be drm'd come to think of it)
2. Like any other TV company they sell their stuff abroad, suddenly making content freely available to foreign markets will screw with the licensing.
3.It isn't just BBC content they're making available, it's the entire week's schedule. That will include foreign shows, Heroes for example, and they're not going to be able to redistribute that to the world are they.
Anyway, the quality isn't great. I thought maybe the downloadable drm'd wmv (NO Linux /Mac support here) stuff might be better - it isn't. We're far better off recording it ourselves or downloading via torrent. - honeymustardn, on 12/18/2007, -2/+12How can a computer be gay?
Ahh nevermind. - mlostracco, on 12/18/2007, -0/+9It's worse when people write iPOD for no explicable reason.
- doc99, on 12/18/2007, -1/+10How stupid of me! lol
- danormsby, on 12/18/2007, -1/+10It isn't completely inaccurate as I can now using the BBC iPlayer to watch streaming content on my iMac. The streaming content view is a new just released feature and is Linux and Mac compatible. Why would I want to litter my machine with downloads when I can watch content streamed anyway??!?
- CaptO, on 12/18/2007, -1/+10I think it's because of the acronym for MAC addresses with network devices. However that stands for Media Access Control - in this case it's a shortened version of Macintosh.
- inactive, on 12/18/2007, -5/+14"Did you know that Bill Gates started writing self-praising columns for the BBC, which is funded by tax payers?"
Please link to one of these self-praise columns. And I mean I better see some self-praise on them. Next, please explain how this is bad, and what it has to do with the BBC being funded by tax revenue. - andyakadum, on 12/18/2007, -0/+9Yes, thank god for all of us Media Access Control users out there.
Too bad for you Macintosh users though. - REBELinBLUE, on 12/18/2007, -1/+9Collecting "a small fee" probably wouldn't be allowed. The BBC is a publicly funded organisation, BBC world is the commercial arm. Collecting a fee would count as a commercial activity which the BBC isn't allowed to do whilst they are publicly funded.
- wookiecookie88, on 12/18/2007, -0/+8"Rights agreements mean that BBC iPlayer is only available to users in the UK. However, BBC Worldwide is working on an international version, which we will make available as soon as possible." Quote from BBC Online.
- mcmlxxii, on 12/18/2007, -2/+10@kretik, the BBC is not funded by tax revenue, I'm exceedingly pleased to say. It is the law in the UK that if you have a TV you pay a licence fee to the BBC, but that is not the same as a tax. The BBC is publicly funded and accountable to the public. It is ours.
I don't know about the Bill Gates stuff but in the end the Flash version of the iplayer is not as full featured as the XP/WMP version, and the BBC should never ever ever have got so close to a large commercial company. - quack, on 12/18/2007, -1/+8Because the Digg algorithm decided it should be on the front page.
- MonarchWastxD, on 12/18/2007, -4/+11Sorry, please go to the nbc site and abc site with a UK ip and tell me what happens. So piss off. We pay for our shows and they're good quality programming sans adverts. Go get your own national television service.
- jeremynicolas, on 12/18/2007, -0/+7They're not nearly as long and don't interrupt actual shows — they're in between programs, which is fine I think.
- Tippis, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6Why wouldn't it be?
- inactive, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6Exactly the same as when I try and watch shows on American sites you *****.
- aliguana, on 12/18/2007, -2/+8yeah, it's crazy. People from America are clambering to actually PAY the fee and watch the shows, and people in the UK actively OBJECT to paying the fee coz the shows are crap. Irony? Something like that.
- greebowarrior, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6theoretically, they could licence iPlayer to BBC Worldwide Ltd (who are a commercial business), who could then allow subscription-based access to the content for users outside of the UK, but that could seriously piss with the way content is already being licensed across the pond
- jamief00, on 12/18/2007, -2/+8The BBC certainly is not Free To Air. We pay a licence fee every year to watch it.
- inactive, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6You are wrong. The flash version is up and running now. It works on mac and linux.
- stringbean68, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6and neither does the content business. Just because you pay a licence fee doesn't mean you own the content, any more than paying your taxes means you own a nuclear weapon
- MacParrot, on 12/18/2007, -1/+7because we all hate you...kidding. Do you spend a lot of time reading stories and commenting on those you don't like? Is that REALLY how you spend your time? Seems like a foolish waste to me, but hey, it's your nickle...or 5 pence
- Morky, on 12/18/2007, -0/+5Thank God! I've been try to get the iPlayer to work on 00:19:B9:24:14:FF with absolutely zero success.
- MacParrot, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4So which Linux story did you submit instead?
- saynotocensors, on 12/18/2007, -1/+5I personally don't know many people who object to paying the TV licence, I know I get much more than my money's worth just from listening to 6 Music all day, watching Newsnight, BBC 2 Comedy, Radio 4 comedy. All of that without even watching any of the big budget stuff is less than a cup of coffee a week. The only time you hear people really objecting is when there's the hand of Murdoch behind the media and he has ulterior motives.
- sgoogle, on 12/18/2007, -1/+5It's not a tax, it's a license. If you don't have a TV or use BBC TV services on online , you don't pay
- sparced, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4i don't know.
- rebelwoaclue, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Is it just me, or does someone in every Digg discussion eventually throw "you're an idiot" out there? I'm starting to feel that a discussion hasn't reached maturity (tongue-firmly-in-cheek) until someone adds that.
- massrox, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Well us Brits can't watch any of the shows on the US networks websites either.
- MonarchWastxD, on 12/18/2007, -1/+4Go BBC!
- digjam, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3why does every damn new thing needs to start with "i" ??
- MacParrot, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3DARN IT! So much for my plan of world domination
- rohanch, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Well, at least they launched a streaming version.
For a lot of programmes I'd prefer to watch them streamed anyway and it means no installing the horrible iPlayer software. You're right though, it's not an excuse to say "we support Mac and Linux now" and never make a proper downloading player for them. - simd, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Why doesn't the BBC offer the content for a free equivalent to the license fee? Would seem like a nice little earner.
- themoose, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3No..
- dinosaur, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3But I'd willingly pay the couple of hundred dollars or so for a TV license fee so I could watch BBC shows from the US - trouble is there's no option to do so. The BBC (and other UK broadcasters) seem want to provide only certain shows (through Kangaroo), so are therefore censoring their output - unnecessary imho.
UK residents might be rather surprised at the number of expats (and others) who would willingly pay the license fee to get unfiltered BBC content...it's just the equivalent of a couple of months cable/sat. -
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