Nonsense
You can watch iPlayer without paying a license fee here, but if their "judge, jury and executioner" like IP locator remotely suspects they could be missing out on selling you one of their international paid stations, you don't get access.
@Jolyon - Then how would us poor freetards get access? According to the BBC's own website, you don't need a license to receive non-live programming
@Kenny Swan - You pay your license to receive live TV while in the UK. Nothing more.
@RW - Couldn't agree more, the IOC are just looking after their own financial interests.
Evil gates, because he knows all about financial interests.