a while back I had to use all sorts of shady tactics simply to record 3 episodes of catwatch to an MP4 file so the old people can watch it in the quiet room (some software that confused Auntie into thinking a normal computer was a Iphone and it then delivered a raw MP4 stream).
An old peoples home has a blanket exemption from a lot of PRS/PPL laws anyway and the BBC and Ofcom under the previous Govt set up a scheme where a load of special digital TV boxes for seniors were dropped off at the site when the analogue signal switched off.
I get the EBU tech magazine sent to me every quarter (as I still do the odd bit of broadcast engineering work now and then for a community radio station and some other ventures) and there is loads of wonderful stuff we could do with online media but its being held back by the demands of rights holders (often based in the USA) who were irrationally paranoid about piracy.
