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Game over? Your freeloading of BBC iPlayer videos with a VPN has ended

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EXCERPT: Anglophiles might be finding it a bit harder to access BBC programming, as the Beeb is cracking down on people accessing its iPlayer from outside the UK. The iPlayer is the BBC’s streaming video service, where users can view programs from any of the BBC channels. It used to be that anyone with a UK VPN (virtual private network) could fool the iPlayer [...] To combat this, the BBC is blocking VPNs altogether [...] this is probably related to the BBC’s plans to charge US residents a subscription fee for access to streaming video, which is slated to begin next year....


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