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Originally Posted by Neil

Look out folks I just had an interesting thought-

This series is produced by the BBC using money from us licence payers.
Should us licence payers be able to buy the series for the actual cost of the physical DVD's?
What would that be, a couple of quid?
By paying the full price are we not being asked to pay for the series twice?

And earnings from the sale of other programmes.
No!
Probably less. Say 50p.
No more than if people subscribe to Sky etc and watch the adverts that we pay for by buying the advertised goods. Sky etc get paid TWICE. Once by the advertiser and once by the subscriber. You do get a programme thrown in though.

If the BBC did not sell their programmes all around the world, it would not have the funds to make quality programmes like it does and in order to do so the licence fee would have to increase substantially.