[Gllug] i think you guys wanna read this

[Jason Clifford]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Bernard Peek wrote:

> The satellite isn't in the UK, what's stopping you from buying the feed 
> from the same place he does?

Programme licensing is usually region specific. His suppliers are unlikely 
to be able to offer the feed to this region.

> If it's been done once it's not a primarily technical issue any more, 
> it's a legal one.

Indeed as UK laws are other than Canadian.

Note that there is also a supply issue on the distribution side. There is 
no central distribution agency as there must be in the US to cope with the 
needs of hundreds of local broadcasting networks - there is just BBC/ITV 
and Sky/NTL.

Here you would have to either go with one of those (expensive) or 
negotiate to carry content from every channel you want separately.

Jason
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