I&#x27;ve read somewhere that some official reason is that they were then an &quot;unfair competition&quot; to the other content producers in the UK, including to the &quot;local&quot; BBC, which is &quot;not the same&quot; as BBC worldwide that is &quot;for profit,&quot; but I don&#x27;t have any link ready, and I don&#x27;t see it mentioned in the HN discussion that sensecall links here.