"artisticforge ." <[email protected]> writes: > get_iplayer, bypasses all of that and is grabbing a digital copy of > the BBC content. there is a fundamental difference.
This is true, but hardly unusual. For instance, https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/ works excellently for a wide range of sites -- fundamentally, if it's viewable, and on some popular site, someone will share a tool that makes it downloadable, and it'd annoy me if the BBC are wasting much licence fee income in tilting at that particular windmill. What I actually find get_iplayer far more valuable for is being able to identify BBC shows that I'll want to watch (whether because I was looking out for them, or because they are new and not in my "blacklist") -- easy command-line access to the "available now" list is great, if it didn't also do the downloading I'm sure I could arrange that otherwise should I wish. When I do have to use the BBC's site, I tend to find roughly the page I want via Google rather than trying to actually navigate it; I wouldn't dream of using it to actually discover the availability of things I want to watch. -- Mark _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
