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1. Phazer Says:

   May 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 am

   Huggers didn’t say anything of the kind at the conference – the Mail has simply invented it.

   All he said was that people watching the iPlayer should, morally, have a TV licence (since if they don’t have a TV and don’t watch live they’re not legally required to). Nothing about charging people who already have a licence. Nothing about subscriptions. Nip. Nada. Zilch.

   Neither the iPlayer nor Hulu will be in a position to make a profit offering content outside of their own home territory any time this decade. The costs and admin of rights clearance would simply make it far too expensive to possibly recoup it’s costs. So Hulu’s international offerings will have little or no US content, and any international iPlayer will probably just be stuff cleared for the international BBC channels like BBC America.

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