Is this man talking nonsense regarding the internet being a global sized brain ?

[Sysman]

so its not funded by the licence fee so its content is not available.

Yet they profit from selling programmes made in the UK with licence fee payers money?

They have been doing that for donkey's years.

And presumably hiding it off the books somewhere.

I wonder to which tax haven the royalties go?

The notable thing about BBC Prime, which we used to get in Switzerland*, was that it broadcast BBC produced content which didn't involve royalty payments to the actors.

Though I am not sure about East Enders. The bastards used to show that about 3 times a weekday and follow it up with the Omnibus edition 2 or 3 times on both Saturday and Sunday.

* I have no idea what I was paying for it because it was included somewhere in the mixture of cable fees and TV licence here, but they did want $75 a year to get it over satellite.

[Sysman]

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service…"

That URL is the first time I have seen bbc.com in action.

A bit of history here. According to the reports I read in the late nineties or early 2000s, Auntie tried prising bbc.com away from Boston Business Computing, who got it many years previously.

Auntie lost that battle but later bought bbc.com for an undisclosed sum.

And then for at least a decade totally ignored it.

[vetran]

so its not funded by the licence fee so its content is not available.

Yet they profit from selling programmes made in the UK with licence fee payers money?

I wonder to which tax haven the royalties go?

[NickFitz]

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service…"

Looks like the "global brain" has had a lobotomy

[sbakoola]

Is this man talking nonsense regarding the internet being a global sized brain or do you think there's a modicum of truth in what he says ?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2012...come-conscious