To play devils advocate: I don't think it's the politics. From what I understand through recent discussions on and off list, it's more to do with (as always) keeping rights' holders happy. I think that the actual BBC staff would love to hear the various hacks that people here come up with (be prepared for them checking your wiki), but when those hacks bypass content protection measures, it puts them in the awkward position of telling the rights' holders that iPlayer is secure, whilst at the same time hosting a list detailing how to get around that security. So go ahead and post iPlayer hacks on this list, just leave the various forms of DRM in place. I'm not saying I totally agree with this stance, just explaining it, and noting that I understand it.
Vijay. On 18/03/2008, Iain Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Created because I can't keep up with all the threads discussing > iPlayer hacks on the various sites and forums. I've filled out quite a > bit on the iPlayer already but it could do with more info and there > are stubs for other BBC services there as well. > > I think I entirely misunderstood what the point of this mailing list > was. I was encouraged to come here to discuss running the iPlayer on > exotic platforms but now we're actually doing it it seems it's a taboo > subject. Rather than try and work out the bizarre politics of this > place I'll be writing my main discoveries regarding the iPlayer on the > wiki, which is Free (in both regards). > > Laters, > Iain > - > 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/[email protected]/ >
