Changes to live BBC radio streams

[the_bertrum]

The BBC situation is a bit different though, because it is actually a paid for service. We have a thing called "the licence fee" that people in the UK pay, and in the old days it gave a person licence to receive the radio and television broadcasts that the BBC produce. In the analogue days, the consumption could by geographically restricted by which radio towers it was sent from, and then followed up with people on the ground knocking on doors to check if you'd paid. Now that they "broadcast" digitally, anyone in the world can consume and what they are trying to do here is restrict it back to people who can reasonably be assumed to have paid the fee.