It sounds like what used to happen with the Showtime site. Despite Showtime airing CBC productions, EVERYTHING was blocked. Such as it is, Canadians are kinda used to it.
The BBC/BBC America might be that they're trying to filter the North American users through the US site. Why? Dunno. The lack of protection the the US site might be an oversight. The BBC went really crazy a while back on the UK site.
Home Video =/= TV Broadcast =/= Online Broadcast. Okay, this might be TMI from a business POV, but here's a stupid example of this in action: The Red Green Show, or, hell, ANY S&S Production. We have home video releases and TV runs, but notice that there's no official releases of the show online aside from a tiny amount of clips on the Red Green site from many seasons ago. Why? Because the rights are tied to another company who is sitting on them. Therefore, no official clips.
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The BBC/BBC America might be that they're trying to filter the North American users through the US site. Why? Dunno. The lack of protection the the US site might be an oversight. The BBC went really crazy a while back on the UK site.
Home Video =/= TV Broadcast =/= Online Broadcast. Okay, this might be TMI from a business POV, but here's a stupid example of this in action: The Red Green Show, or, hell, ANY S&S Production. We have home video releases and TV runs, but notice that there's no official releases of the show online aside from a tiny amount of clips on the Red Green site from many seasons ago. Why? Because the rights are tied to another company who is sitting on them. Therefore, no official clips.
It's really lame.