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People who has spent any time abroad whether on holiday or working overseas will shortly realize what good value the BBC licence is and what prime quality programming the BBC and other UK television channels provide.

The BBC and other british TV networks broadcasters use an IP address based system to contol which people can watch their content and viewers whose IP address is not in the UK will get a message 'Not available in your area' when trying to use iPlayer.

Part of the cause of this is to guard their revenue, for instance, popular dramas such as the wonderful BBC production of 'The diary of Anne Frank' will be sold to other nations and the cash earned will help to back other productions.

Much of the content shown by the BBC is not owned by them but is 'rented' just like you and I might rent a film from a video shop. In cases like these, the BBC or ITV will only have purchased the rights to air the content on regular TV and may not be able to make it available online.

Examples of this are box office films and huge sports occassions such as football matches. In these examples, web viewers will get a message to the effect that 'for legal reasons, the programme can only be viewed on regular television'.

Using our system helps you to watch BBC iPlayer and other UK (and even US) based shows without the limitation of being in the UK by fetching net pages for them, i.e. By acting as a 'proxy'.

It should be observed that we don't condone or inspire folk to break the law or evade paying a licence fee. Our software is intended for UK residents to permit fellow UK license payers to keep up to date with UK content whilst abroad.

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