Why no iPlayer on Android tablets?

System

get what they ought to have a right to anyway

Go on then, I'll bite. Why should they have a right?

buglawton

With the EHIC system (was the E111 card) if you've paid/are eligible for access to healthcare in on EU country then you can access healthcare in any EU country you travel in.

The European Publishers Council wants EU TV without borders and has been lobbying MEPs.
http://epceurope.eu/epc-calls-on-meps-to-stop-members-states-interfering-in-free-circulation-of-media-content/

Until sensible laws arrive people will continue to use VPNs, SmartDNS and Torrents to get what they ought to have a right to anyway.

The principle exists but the laws don't yet.

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/audiovisual_and_media/l24101_en.htm

DIRECTIVE 89/552/EEC - "TELEVISION WITHOUT FRONTIERS"
The Directive aims to ensure the free movement of broadcasting services within the internal market and at the same time to preserve certain public interest objectives, such as cultural diversity...

...Member States must ensure freedom of reception and that they may not restrict retransmission on their territory of television programmes from other Member States...

colin79666

buglawton wrote: »

With the EHIC system (was the E111 card) if you've paid/are eligible for access to healthcare in on EU country then you can access healthcare in any EU country you travel in.

Ironically, it is Spanish hospitals which have been flouting the rules on this!

System

may not restrict retransmission on their territory of television programmes from other Member States...

Means that the UK can not stop Spanish (for example) transmissions to the UK. Nothing to do with the problem the OP is discussing.

Google, as a commercial organisation, decide what apps are available to a user based on their registration etc. As Google are not a broadcaster then the above directive has absolutely no bearing on this. You are confusing broadcasting TV with making programs available on the internet. The wording of the directive is clearly aimed at the broadcaster and OTA transmissions

Collabora

But the BBC who owns the iPlayer App and then sells rights to google to list on googleplay can restrict google to which countries can access and use the app

JJ_Egan

Side load Iplayer .

System

Collabora wrote: »

But the BBC who owns the iPlayer App and then sells rights to google to list on googleplay can restrict google to which countries can access and use the app

Exactly the same way that BBC limit program access on their website to UK IP addresses. It is their call all the way and not breaching any half-assed EU directive

Collabora

!!!!!! wrote: »

Exactly the same way that BBC limit program access on their website to UK IP addresses. It is their call all the way and not breaching any half-assed EU directive

i never argued this fact . this is the same as if you go onto the NBC website you will find in your are in the UK you cannot watch any of the programmes on their site as you dont have permission being in the UK

System

Collabora wrote: »

i never argued this fact . this is the same as if you go onto the NBC website you will find in your are in the UK you cannot watch any of the programmes on their site as you dont have permission being in the UK

I wasn't arguing but adding extra information supporting your statement

S0litaire

simple fact time...

BBC own some of the rights to the shows they broadcast, and have limited rights to others. The BBC restrict access to show to countries that DON'T pay the BBC licence fee. With other shows (like films) they have only the right to broadcast once and not on catch-up services.

The BBC , when they put the app in Google play (or any other app marketplace ) have the option to make the app available worldwide, or to a specific region/country/or device.

They have to go by the broadcast licences they negotiate with production companies.