On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I mean is, what thing have they done to make it unique for the > iPhone and what can we do to route around that so other phones can use it? What they have done is called "user agent sniffing". They basically look at whats connecting and if its an iPhone they serve a different web page. You can spoof user agent[8][9] to bypass this but thats not a proper solution. > Thanks. And if I might make so bold - why do they do this? What is it specific about the iPhone that this feed needs to be limited to iPhones? > Or, to put it another way, if it wasn't sniffing my phone, could I watch this feed on my N95 (insert any other capable phone or phone app here) Yep. Maybe what we're witnessing here is the slow but progressive breaking down of the barriers erected by the rightsholders... Maybe a stealth effort by the Beeb to show that hey, nonDRMed content doesn't decrease the value of your holders' performance rights, it does make the consumers happier though and increases the viewership - and if that equals more eventual dvd sales, so be it... ... Part of me doesn't put it past them that this has always been some part of their longterm gameplan.
