On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:00 +0100, Ian Stirling wrote: > get_iplayer - and friends were very useful in the past.
It's still useful. The DRM only really hurts the casual and relatively clue-free user; if you're clueful enough it's simple enough to update to the current version of rtmpdump and have get_iplayer feed it the appropriate -swfVfy option. And since fairly much everyone who was systematically violating the copyright _is_ capable of that, the only people who are inconvenienced are the genuine, honest users. As usual. I can kind of sympathise with the 'Something Must Be Done; this is Something so We Must Do It' brigade. It must be hard being in a position where you have to make technical choices, but you're too clueless to make sane ones and you don't have the integrity to either resign or delegate the more technical decisions to someone who's actually capable of doing the job. But I do wish they'd stick to _other_ pointless and ineffective solutions like sacrificing a goat or installing a 'panic button'... anything which _wouldn't_ also hurt the genuine users. -- dwmw2 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
