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Labour says it will vote against DUP's proposed TV Licence reforms

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Pay?

"In more recent years, the UK government has apparently decided that we don't want foreigners to listen to us anymore."

That's quite possible an unintended consequence of hiving off much of the BBC production to independent companies who retain the IP rights to the productions. They want to be able to sell them again to other territories and so argue that the BBC must do all it reasonably and technically can to stop unauthorised dissemination. In the analogue days, that was quite difficult but now everything is digital it's easier and cheaper to geo-block, or more tightly focus a satellite beam, or encrypt it. The other sad side effect is the limited amount of BBC broadcast shows on catch-up for more than few weeks.

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