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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by alexsereno on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:07PM (#36947340)
“Inevitable” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this comment
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by ta1243 on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:06PM (#36948044)
Inevitable in that people in charge of the BBC want to prove that people (specifically an appropriate cross-section of the British public) use the BBC to keep the funding secure
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by robertlagrant on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:09PM (#36948080)
They could do that by entering the 21st century and having an IP-locked subscription system.
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by Evidlo on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:22PM (#36948244)
How does that get them subscription estimates?
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by robertlagrant on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:52AM (#36953868)
Then they can make sure people in the UK have a subscription account.
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by toyg on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:33PM (#36950339)
Because every house has a single, unchangeable IP...?

You clearly never worked in an ISP.

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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by robertlagrant on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:51AM (#36953864)
I definitely did not work at an ISP. But what I said doesn't require a static IP per house. Just GeoIP so non-UK residents are treated differently (unless they VPN).
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by toyg on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:25AM (#36955110)
The target is not to determine whether the client is in the UK, but whether the client is a specific license-payer or at a specific address. GeoIP doesn't help to get either of those datapoints.
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by ta1243 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:32AM (#36953382)
Enforced by a proprietary app?
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by robertlagrant on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:55AM (#36953881)
Yes, called iPlayer[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer

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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by ta1243 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @06:03AM (#36954256)
Or Sounds which is basically the audio version of iplayer
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by robertlagrant on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:08PM (#36948066)
No; inevitable is a claim, not a support.
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