Paul Oldham <[email protected]> writes: > On 31/10/14 02:55, Dave Ford wrote: > >> As posted on the BBC Internet blog - from Jon Billings: >> >> 'In particular, the BBC does not sanction XBMC, get_iplayer or similar >> clients, and the iPlayer RSS feeds were never designed or intended to >> support them. Nitro will almost certainly not support their ways of >> working. We realise this comes as unwelcome news to users of these clients. >> The iPlayer team continues to work hard to maximise access to iPlayer >> across a wide range of platforms and devices.' > > You've got to love the way these guys can't see any contradiction > between that last sentence and what went before it. Sigh.
Absolutely! I hope that get_iplayer users complain directly to the BBC and/or the BBC Trust or suchlike too though rather than just here. After all, we're (mostly, probably?) licence fee payers and the BBC is supposed to be /serving the UK public/, not behaving like some private corporate media provider for whom the most important thing is to control their branding or some other such nonsense. E-mail's perhaps a good analogy: the client I'm using now, anybody was able to write because of the open standards, and I got to choose one that was right for me, it is not like the people originally behind e-mail even had to fund my e-mail software's development! And everything is better for that being so. -- Mark _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
