[Gllug] Which architecture?

[Peter Corlett]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> On 5 May 2009, at 12:53, Juergen Schinker wrote:
[..]
>> since they are funded by the public (TV Licence buyer)
> AIUI the TV Licence covers live broadcasts but not rebroadcasts. You don't
> need a licence to watch iPlayer, only BBC live streams. So I am not sure
> the BBC would agree with your analysis here anyway.

More specifically, a TV Licence is required to receive all television
broadcasts. That includes repeats, the test card, foreign satellite
stations, Internet-only TV stations, whatever. It's a very broad brush.
However, iPlayer's catch-up service isn't broadcast, so not covered.

The TV Licence also doesn't fully-fund the BBC. Extra revenue comes from the
Foreign Office (i.e. general taxation) and BBC Worldwide (e.g. DVD boxsets
of BBC programmes).

> Do you actually have any knowledge here or are you just spouting
> uninformed opinions?

Juergen seems to be the kind of person that the term "freetard" was invented
for.

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