Re: BBC ending Shoutcast stream

d6jg wrote: 
> Don’t you think this could be Auntie attempting more geo blocking? 
> If you have ever had any dealings with overseas networking you will find
> that www.bbc.co.uk returns a different site entirely to the one we see
> in UK.

If I listen here in France direct on my laptop to the Beeb via their
website, or direct via the Sounds replay facility - ie, not connected at
all to the LMS world - there's almost never any geo blocking.  Except
for some live sports, and some live music.  And that other oddity -
Thought For The Day on BBC R4 is sometimes geo locked - I imagine that
the contract they have with some of the independent contributors is for
UK rights only (I know one chap who makes a decent income from selling
his short "belief" essays to English language stations round the world,
the Beeb merely being his largest and best customer.....).

So, I think that IF the Beeb wants to do more geo locking, this ending
of Shoutcast and advertising Sounds would be an odd way of going about
it.  I don't think this is a commercial policy issue, but a techie one -
and that the overseas addition of the message to a Sounds-derived LMS
stream is probably a glitch of the type we've sometimes seen before.

Let's hope!  BTW, I now haven't heard the message for 36 hours - but the
week-end material on R3, R4 and R4Ex is much more heavily pre-recorded
than the weekday stuff (even the Continuity), so that may be a factor
too.



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