The end of google?

The BBC don't exactly like people looking at their stuff on computer. It's legal to go on their site (without a television license), but not to look at live stuff without one. Like anyone else, they use cookies. They know that their days as living on income from conventional TV license are coming to an end. You may notice, on occasion, that if you visit the BBC, you also collect a cookie labelled 'tvlicensing' (I jest not). In the not so distant future, some sort of pay to watch online system will come to be. Weather would come within the scope of 'live', in the same sense that the days news would. The BBC are just drawing the string tighter. Reasonable enough.

An increasing number of people watch TV via computer, because they think they can dodge the license fee (not suggesting it's you, but "duh !"), or it's more convenient. Whatever the reason, it chokes the internet. Most people in the UK use British Telecom copper (even if they don't have BT as an ISP). BT will not miss the opportunity (they fought hard to stop others providing broadband, by making MAC's difficult to obtain).

In a similar way, YouTube are getting into a ruck with Facebook and similar.

It's all about getting people to pay for a service, performers rights etc.

Google is not the only search engine.

Two thoughts ; you get what you pay for, and most charities end up run by salaried 'professionals'.

The BBC and BT are dinosaurs, overdue for change or extinction.

Kris