Originally Posted by
daveboy
BBC iPlayer Abroad
TV Proxy is pleased to announce that our proxy is fully compatible with BBC iPlayer allowing users to watch iPlayer whilst abroad, providing of course they have a BBC TV license.
Anyone who has spent any time abroad whether on holiday or working overseas will soon realize what good value the BBC licence is and what high quality programming the BBC and other UK TV channels provide.
The BBC and other british broadcasters use an IP address based system to contol who can watch their content and viewers whose IP address is not in the UK will get a message 'Not available in your area' when trying to use iPlayer.
Part of the reason for this is to protect their revenue, for instance, popular dramas such as the excellent BBC production of 'The diary of Anne Frank' will be sold to other countries and the revenue earned will be used to fund other productions.
Some of the content shown by the BBC is of course not owned by them but is 'rented' just like you and I would rent a film from a video shop. In these cases, the BBC or ITV will only have bought the rights to air the content on regular television and will not be able to make it available on the internet.
Examples of this are box office films and big sporting events such as football matches. In these instances, internet viewers will get a message to the effect that 'for legal reasons, the programme can only be viewed on regular TV'.
TV Proxy enables it's members to watch BBC iPlayer and other UK based content without the restriction of being in the UK by fetching web pages on their behalf, i.e. by acting as a 'proxy'.