The pay TV giant claimed the BBC Trust's plans for on-demand syndication are "unnecessarily restrictive".
Sky has claimed millions of its subscribers could be prevented from accessing on-demand services from the BBC.The pay TV broadcaster said the BBC Trust's provisional conclusions regarding the syndication of its catch-up content are "unnecessarily restrictive", as they force its rivals to adopt BBC aggregation products - namely the iPlayer.
This stands to affect more than 3.5 million households that use Sky's broadband-enabled set-top boxes, as the equipment is unable to support any of the iPlayer's "standard" versions.
According to Sky, the knowing exclusion of such a large number of potential viewers is one of many "perverse outcomes" found in the provisional conclusions report.
"It demonstrates that the Trust has not acted in the public interest in arriving at its draft syndication policy," the company argued.
Last week, the BBC launched a new feature that allows iPlayer users to search for programmes screened by other content providers, including ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the MSN Video Player.