Personally I kind of agree. Other than storage and traffic considerations I cannot see why the entire BBC archive is not available online. It seems stupid to me that we have literally 50+ years of content, documentaries, panel shows, etc. Which could all easily be put online as they are the BBC's content and have been paid for by the British people already.
I understand that this might be overkill but I definitely find myself wanting to watch older episodes of things like would I lie to you or Rhod Gilbert's work experience or HIGNFY or some other show which disappeared long ago for no real reason. Netflix, Amazon, are all ok but there really is a market for some service which has an entire plethora of shows with permanent storage. I'm also fed up of nextflix getting some show I like only to have it disappeared in a month, or only season 3 of 5 be available. If the BBC can solve that they have my business and I'm sure a lot of overseas business too.
I understand that this might be overkill but I definitely find myself wanting to watch older episodes of things like would I lie to you or Rhod Gilbert's work experience or HIGNFY or some other show which disappeared long ago for no real reason. Netflix, Amazon, are all ok but there really is a market for some service which has an entire plethora of shows with permanent storage. I'm also fed up of nextflix getting some show I like only to have it disappeared in a month, or only season 3 of 5 be available. If the BBC can solve that they have my business and I'm sure a lot of overseas business too.