..at the end of the day as far as i am aware Neil ..you cannot legally transmit ..bbc ..and itv channels .from turkey.i was with a company last year .uktelly i think it was called ..and it went bust..i was lucky enough to have paid in monthly installments ..so i never lost too much money..but a lot of people paid for a year up front and lost the lot ..so now i am a bit wary of paying for uk channels now .....so i think i made the right choice..if i lose the channels i lose them ..but at the end of the day they cost me nothing...with the exception of dreambox..which is also illegal
Thanks Hijo
Just to clarify, no-one is 'transmitting' anything from Turkey. The only people transmitting anything are the BBC and ITV etc. their content is locked to IP addresses outside the UK, so a VPN service just allows people to dial in to a UK server and connect via a UK IP address to the Internet. The server is just an intermediary, a bit like having a UK PO Box. The banner to the left just describes one of the functions of a VPN - allowing
access to iplayer, iplayer, ch 4 and ch 5.
VPN technology isn't illegal. It's the backbone of many international companies' communication networks, allowing workers to access common resources. One of these shared resources is Internet access. If anyone has any doubts about the legal aspect, a search for 'is it illegal to access iplayer using VPN' or 'BBC sues VPN provider' will come up with ... nothing.
It's unlikely the company mentioned actually went bust, unless they were so broke they sold their server. Sounds more like they just gave up. UKTVACCESS is backed by
ELD Training - it's a training organistaion that works in developing countries with international NGOs such as Save the Children / UNICEF etc. We've been around 10 years, and only recently removed ourselves from the UK charities' register. We pay taxes, our Internet trading accounts are verified (PayPal, Google, 2Checkout) and all those merchants have strong buyer protection policies. Sorry to hear about your experience, it is a cowboy market, I agree, and it reflects badly on those who intend to guarantee the service provided rather than chasing a quick few quid.
It might seem strange that ELD is running UKTVACCESS. The logic for us is simple - we have a server, we are expatriate and we like to watch TV. Having gone to the trouble of configuring the server, we thought it sensible to offer this service to our clients. (Many international development workers appreciate their home comforts!)
We are promoting this service in Turkey cause I was a VPN user and it was wonderful, especially for my son who didn't speak Turkish and needed his Dr Who and Sarah Jane!
My earlier post wasn't critical of Filmon, I just noted that (1) you only get 'live' TV and not the ability to access iplayer andother UK TV channels' archived shows (just found that 4oD has all 3 series of 'The IT Crowd' - genius) and (2) that when you register they reserve the right to pass on your email address.
Anyway, a VPN isn't the only option for TV overseas, but for me as a regular Internet user it works. To paraphrase the Remington advert, "I liked it so much, I started my own company." As mentioned, [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreambox"]Dreambox [/ame]technology is another approach, and I wrote
a post earlier outlining some of the main, reliable methods. I've already tried enough unreliable ones to be happy with something that does what it says on the box which, for me, is VPN. If someone isn't happy, there's a refund within the first seven days anyway, so what's to worry about.
Cheers to all
Neil
