When will the BBC catch up?

Because of a very rain-delayed Grand Prix today, we missed most of it - the timer expired on our DVR. No problem, I thought, BBC will have it on their iPlayer. They do, but because we live in America, they won't stream here, despite it clearly stating in the BBC's own T's & C's that you don't need territorial restrictions or a subscription to watch iPlayer content if it's not live - ie. repeats.
The Beeb have clearly invested a lot of money in preventing anyone from watching their shows (no number of VPNs or proxies will fool iPlayer any more) - money that the English license-payer has paid. Sadly, it seems that even though their own terms and conditions allow it, and even though we get the BBC via our satellite subscription, we're being excluded.
The BBC need to wake up and follow their own rules.
And no, I don't want to know the result - we're going to watch Speed TV's re-run on Tuesday (because Fox bollocksed-up the US transmission over here all on their own).

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Paul said…
Hmmm, not sure what happened where you are but I am currently in Des Moines for work and watched it all (yes, all 4 hours!) on Fox. I had to switch over to SpeedTV for the "aftermatch". Except for the amount of adverts the coverage was pretty good. And this from someone who hates Fox with a passion.
And without giving it away, it was one of the great races I remember watching. Enjoy it on Tuesday. I'll be watching the "Seat Swap" where Tony Stewart and Lewis Hamilton swap race seats at Watkins Glen.
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