Outakes No Longer Available in the U.S.?

:cry: I actually found out that the videos weren't working while I was on the Top Gear site at school. I thought it was just the school's computers blocking the video but then it happened when I got home and now I'm sad. :(

Why did they block everyone outside the UK from seeing the videos? Its just weird. It makes no sense that its some sort of "malfunction" because if it were, then no one should be able to access them at all. :cry:

And I really wanted to see the bus racing and Ferrari Daytona outtakes....
 
xicedlovexoxo said:
Why did they block everyone outside the UK from seeing the videos?
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I would assume it has something to do with blocking everyone who doesn't get the BBC... aka anyone who doesn't pay license fees. It makes sense, because if you think about it, I doubt a lot of people in the UK would be happy having their license fees foot the bill for bandwidth going to people outside the UK watching BBC content.
 
Dogbert said:
I would assume it has something to do with blocking everyone who doesn't get the BBC... aka anyone who doesn't pay license fees. It makes sense, because if you think about it, I doubt a lot of people in the UK would be happy having their license fees foot the bill for bandwidth going to people outside the UK watching BBC content.
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Yeah they're pretty vigilant about who views the BBC.

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K.C. said:
Yeah they're pretty vigilant about who views the BBC.

BBC is sort of vigilant about their stuff. You can get podcasts of all their big radio DJs and you can even listen to live audio streams of their radio shows. I would say they have a rather inconsistent approach that does not appear to have any reasoning.
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Also cannot watch any of the clips from Russia. Not the end of the world but sad.
 
Dogbert said:
I would assume it has something to do with blocking everyone who doesn't get the BBC... aka anyone who doesn't pay license fees. It makes sense, because if you think about it, I doubt a lot of people in the UK would be happy having their license fees foot the bill for bandwidth going to people outside the UK watching BBC content.
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Yet Top Gear magazine is a commercial entity of the BBC, so as long as they make profit through advertising they should offer this service (assuming that Top Gear mag pays the BBC for the rights to these clips :rolleyes:).
 
So which of the FTPs is this in ? Gonna snap one and view it.

:(

I am not a happy man.
 
So I got the clips from TechZ's FTP and... the clips actually feature very little unseen content. And it's not even funny content. It's almost as if they posted those videos to piss off non-British people...
 
I'm hoping that there is actually another news uncut.

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If this becomes a permanent thing, which i really hope it doesnt :(, all we can hope for is for someone in the UK to get the clips ad upload them to the FTPs
 
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It would appear that this is becoming a common thing on BBC program sites (is the same with Dr Who and Torchwood sites and always has been as far as I know). It is very disappointing, as fans of the show(s) we want all the access we can get. The advertising and licencing rights paid by the countries in which the programs are aired should cover the extra changes of making the extra information available to those that wish to watch it, or so I would have thought. It seems stingy to not allow the fans the access - the Dr who site has an advent calender in which those outside the UK can not see the first days info for this same reason barhumbug :p
Cheers
JLM
 
Ok, I've been trying not to say anything negative about this, but...

This is really poor public relations. BBCA imports TG over to us, presumably wanting us to become fans and increase their popularity and income and then they say, "...but you can't enjoy all of it."

Ok, fine. They don't want us to have it for free. Some of us are willing to pay - but they don't even have the infrastructure in place to profit from it.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't help but think if things were reversed and it was a US show, they'd be falling all over themselves to sell you complete series DVDs, books, shirts, CDs, internet content, and TopGear bog roll. Yes, it's crass commercialism, but at least everybody would have their needs met. I'm astounded at the BBC's missed opportunity for profit. That wouldn't happen here.

Also, I have to mention that if I'm going to pay for content, I want all of the original content, not the bastardized, edited versions like on iTunes.


Sorry, but that's how I feel. :mad:

Perhaps some e-mails to complaints@bbc.co.uk would make us feel better.
 
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The least they could do is post a message on the site explaining why they did this. They must realize they have tenthousands of visitors from outside the UK and to block the videos without any explanation is simply not a very nice thing to do. Even if they were probably forced to do so by higher powers within the BBC.
 
The content got banned everywhere else in the world. I can't access them either.

What's more crap is that Topgear.com is hosted on a CDN - Akamai - with local servers in many countries providing faster access to the content. & what's the use now if only people in UK can watch the videos?

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Sorry, but they should be allowing access to everything on their site for free. Every channel that carries Top Gear internationally pays for the rights to air it. People in the UK are paying for the production of the show, but not for it to be shown in, say, Canada; we're paying for that. So why can I not see the same extras that UK viewers can? I call foul.
 
Well, Blayde and a few others have posted how you can get the out takes from an FTP server. I did not use the FTP server but found another way round and agree with petarkb that the out takes are not really all that great.

Going forward I decided to use another suggestion found on the forum, which is to use a UK proxy server to 'trick' the BBC site into allowing me access to their programming. A few people used free ones, but I could not get those to work reliably (somehow the java was getting blocked as reported by others) and so decided to *gasp* pay for access to a UK proxy. With my paid subscription I am able to see those videos, plus I have access to the iPlayer content. With iPlayer I can watch nearly any of the BBC programming from the past 7 days.

I will not post the name of my UK proxy here, but do a google search and select one for yourself if this interests you.

Also, I should point out that were it not for the draconian laws and antiquated thinking of the BBC Directorate I would not have to resort to this method of gaining access to their content. The same myopic views led to wide spread illegal mp3 downloads back in the 90's as people want and deserve access to content and I view this as a human rights issue.

So, rant over and if you want access go get it......
 
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