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Jeans my arse, Titchmarsh is a sex God, they're sensibly censoring his "trouser assets".
Did Auntie Beeb even sell this to NK?

I remember they allowed Sherlock to be exhibited there as a one-off 10 years ago, but wasn’t aware there was much else they’d licensed.

Naturally it would not surprise me if they just nicked it anyway.

If you scroll past all the interstitial garbage, there is one final paragraph of the article:

> It isn't clear how North Korea got hold of the TV show but the country has a history of illegally pirating neutral content like football matches and other TV shows.

Thanks!
actually north korea is a sovereign state with its own legal system, not a territory subject to the british crown, a fact sky's reporter seems to be unaware of

it's not impossible that the north korean state broadcaster is breaking north korean law by broadcasting this program, but it's pretty unlikely

I think we just found KJU's Hacker News account. XD
contrary to your implication, it's not extreme or in any way controversial to say that the jurisdiction of british copyright law does not extend to north korea or in fact any countries outside the british isles

more alternatives do exist than the colonialist atrocities the sky reporter longs for and the totalitarian atrocities kim would love to impose on the rest of the world

one of them is the actually existing system of international relations, in which international copyright enforcement is reciprocal and voluntary

but apparently 'north korea is not within british jurisdiction' is one of the things you can't say on hn because it got downvoted to -2

starting the comment with "actually" might be what got you, rather than the actual content of your message.
i think it's more that the wrong people have voting rights on the site. i mean, obviously so if the actual content of the message counts less than starting the comment with 'actually', right?
You're welcome to hold your own opinion, but imo how you the deliver a message counts just as much, sometimes even more, than the message itself.

If you go up to a client that owes you money, and you say "fuck you, pay me", depending on the business you're in, that's not likely to go as well as if you deliver that same message more professionally.