You're assuming that they are enabling an API key for WIDER distribution of the content - they aren't!
Or rather, their RIGHTS HODLERS don't want to. Remember - this is not the same BBC that used to produce most of it's own content; the production companies are profit-centric operators, and, as with anyone that creates anything, they want to limit and charge for access. The Beeb is currently a leaky-bucket with more holes than they can count and they don't even own the buckets. They have an interesting balance to hit: - Consumers who want everything for free now on every platform. - Content owners who want to sell everything to the consumers everytime they watch/listen and can hold the Beeb to ransom. - A Charter than demands open-access - Almost none of their own infrastructure; totally reliant on Akamai, Limelight, etc. The WHOLE reason why the kind of catch-up TV and radio that we have in Europe doesn't really exist in the US other than in very tightly-controlled systems such as Netflix is because few of the content producers are convinced that THEIR IPR can be managed sufficiently. Auntie may have said MANY things - such as "we want global iPlayer" - but it may not be in their power to DELIVER that.... ________________________________________ From: get_iplayer <[email protected]> on behalf of David Cantrell <[email protected]> Sent: 03 June 2015 08:10 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Nitro API On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:02:23PM +0000, David Lake wrote: > The idea of an API key is fine - the fact that Beeb has limited it to > "commercial operators" and "BBC Employees only" is not. They've said that they're going to open it up to the public, and we have no reason to doubt that. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Erudite is when you make a classical allusion to a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
