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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rolfw" data-source="post: 17756" data-attributes="member: 175057">Unfortunately Alex, for the BBC this is purely a cost cutting exercise, the fact that people outside the footprint will not be able to receive the channels is not of prime importance to them. Bear in mind that these people are not supposed to be receiving it anyway.By changing the encryption to Viaccess, the BBC would stand to lose their 6 million digital viewers on Sky digiboxes and gain only perhaps a few thousand with Viaccess capable receivers in the UK, plus as its cracked already, there would be little point.  The net loss of viewers to the Digital only channels would probably be in the reason of 5.5 million.</blockquote>