![]() It was then equalled in the following campaign by Alan Shearer as he helped Blackburn Rovers win the title. The record for the most goals in a single Premier League campaign was first set by Andy Cole in the 1993-94 season, when the then Newcastle United striker scored 34 league goals. Who has the Premier League record? Mohamed Salah has the record for the most goals scored in a 38-game Premier League season In short, we need people to believe the Beeb is watching – otherwise one day there might not be a BBC to watch.What other scoring records is he closing in on? And just how close is he to becoming the most prolific forward in a season in Europe? BBC Sport takes a look. The BBC says it already loses £150m a year to people who say they don’t need a TV licence because they only watch catchup, and with the number of households saying they don’t have a TV increasing each year, it needs to find some way of making sure people who consume its programmes any other way are paying. Whatever it does come up with, the rationale is clear. In the long run, a more elegant solution would be to require a code linked to your TV licence to access iPlayer. Even if surveillance vans were used, a targeted approach, and one that didn’t monitor Wi-Fi traffic, would make more sense. It could, in theory, use that authorisation to access internet records of which sites you have visited. It has ruled out combing its own records of computers that have logged in to iPlayer and matching those up to licences, but it is authorised to use anti-terror legislation – the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act – to target people it already suspects of watching without a licence. However, carrying out the sort of mass surveillance suggested by the Telegraph is likely to be prohibitively expensive, technically challenging and quite possibly illegal.īesides, there are other ways for the BBC to tell who is watching without paying. While it doesn’t want people to think it’s turning into Big Brother, it does want them to think it knows when you are watching BBC programming without a licence – especially when, from next month, you will be required to pay the £145.50 annual fee to legally watch catchup content as well as live programming. “While we don’t discuss the details of how detection works for obvious reasons, it is wrong to suggest that our technology involves capturing data from private Wi-Fi networks.”īut the BBC’s statement is ambiguous about its capabilities, and there’s an obvious reason for that. The BBC issued a statement rebutting the Telegraph article (without naming it), saying that there had been “considerable inaccurate reporting this weekend about how TV Licensing will detect people breaking the law by watching BBC iPlayer without a licence”. The expert claimed that iPlayer data could be modified to make it distinguishable from other traffic without actually looking at its contents. The story was based on a report published by the National Audit Office last month, which said the BBC had demonstrated its ability to detect people watching live programming (the Telegraph decided not to mention the reference to live viewing only) on a “range of non-TV devices”.Ī “computer network expert” told the Telegraph that the Beeb might be deploying a modified version of a tactic known as “packet sniffing”, which looks at the nature of data passing through Wi-Fi networks without actually intercepting it. “BBC vans to snoop on internet users” cried the headline, warning that from next month a fleet of vehicles will “fan out across the country capturing information from private Wi-Fi networks in hopes to ‘sniff out’ those who have not paid the licence fee”.
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