On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 11:17 -0500, Derek J. Balling wrote:
On Jan 6, 2012, at 11:14 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
I'm not really sure the US way is better though — you have the *same*
rule for devi[cs]e and advi[cs]e, use 's' for both forms of licen[cs]e
and as far as I can tell nobody
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 16:23 +, Andy Waddington wrote:
I do, however, regard the TV licence people as entirely separate
from the BBC, whom I held in much higher regard - until they
started making TV programmes available on the net, as long as
you didn't use Linux or live somewhere too rural
To: Derek J. Balling
Cc: get_iplayer
Subject: Re: Accessing the BBC from outside the UK
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From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org [mailto:get_iplayer-
boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of David Woodhouse
Sent: 07 January 2012 09:52
To: Chris Marriott
On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 09:31 +, Chris Marriott wrote:
David - why do all your messages
On Jan 7, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Andy Wedge wrote:
Like many, I use Outlook and each mail from David shows it has a 1KB
attachment which is irritating when all it contains is details about the
get_iplayer mailing lists, URL and email address. I get the same with emails
from Jonathan W but they
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:57:08PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Oh dear, I seem to have upset the apple-cart.
I can access BBC TV in Dublin (where I live)
on FreeSat and Saorview (saor = free in Irish)
as well as on Sky TV (which I subscribe to),
so it seemed to me logical that I might be
On 7 January 2012 09:52, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote:
All my messages are S/MIME-signed. Perhaps it gets rendered oddly by
your mail client when mailman appends an unsigned signa^H^H^H^H^Htrailer
to each message? It looks sane here: http://david.woodhou.se/mail.png
All emails
To be honest, I don't see the point of get_iplayer, at least for me,
since I can access and download those iplayer programs available in
Dublin on my browser, which is a good deal easier to use than get_iplayer.
If your browser works okay, it probably means that a properly configured
On 5 January 2012 20:39, bat guano batguano...@hotmail.com wrote:
...this is the relevant section from Terms of Use of BBC Online Services
that applies to get_iplayer
3.2.1 If you are outside the UK
You may not access, view and/or listen to certain parts of BBC Content [...]
if you are
-Original Message-
From: Jon Davies
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 2:14 PM
To: get_iplayer
Subject: Re: Accessing the BBC from outside the UK
On 5 January 2012 20:39, bat guano batguano...@hotmail.com wrote:
This is a rather rubbish clause in the terms, which makes it very
unclear
-Original Message-
From: Jon Davies
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 2:14 PM
To: get_iplayer
Subject: Re: Accessing the BBC from outside the UK
On 5 January 2012 20:39, bat guano batguano...@hotmail.com wrote:
This is a rather rubbish clause in the terms, which makes it very
unclear
On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Chris Marriott wrote:
The fundamental issue is that BBC TV is only accessible to TV licence payers,
and if you're not a licence payer, you're not entitled to view it.
Pedantically: UK residents are required to pay a TV licence, and aren't
entitled to have TVs
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 10:41 -0500, Derek J. Balling wrote:
On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Chris Marriott wrote:
The fundamental issue is that BBC TV is only accessible to TV
licence payers, and if you're not a licence payer, you're not entitled
to view it.
Pedantically: UK residents are
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 11:04 -0500, Derek J. Balling wrote:
On Jan 6, 2012, at 11:01 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
Actually convincing the man with the detector van of that fact, and
getting them to stop hassling you, is of course another matter :)
Ha. Like there's any chance of a detector van
-Original Message-
From: Derek J. Balling
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 3:41 PM
To: Chris Marriott
Cc: get_iplayer
Subject: Re: Accessing the BBC from outside the UK
Pedantically: UK residents are required to pay a TV licence, and aren't
entitled to have TVs without paying said
Sometime before sending, Derek J. Balling typed (and on Friday 2012-01-06 sent):
Pedantically: UK residents are required to pay a TV licence,
and aren't entitled to have TVs without paying said licence
fee. If you sit offshore and can still catch the TV broadcast,
you're perfectly, legally,
On 06/01/2012 16:14, David Woodhouse wrote:
and as far as I can tell nobody actually *knows* what the correct US
spelling is for 'practi[cs]e' :)
Well, practise would get you sent to the back of an American
classroom. To practice your spelling, of course :}
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 07:01:40PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I had understood that get_iplayer was a way of getting round the BBC embargo.
But seems that I was completely wrong?
Yes. get_iplayer is a client for BBC iPlayer, just as your web browser
is.
If you want to get at content
On 5 January 2012 18:01, Timothy Murphy gayle...@alice.it wrote:
I too found Clive's tutorial
http://www.4shared.com/office/o8q1NlX3/get_iplayer_instructions_for_u.html
very useful, enabling me to use the application for the first time.
But it brought me to the point where I realised
that
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 07:01:40PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
But it brought me to the point where I realised
that much, if not all, iplayer content is not available outside the UK.
I had understood that get_iplayer was a way of getting round the BBC embargo.
But seems that I was
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 19:45 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
On a wider note, I am increasingly peturbed at the number of enquiries this
list receives about this sort of thing. I do not think we should encourage
people to access content to which they are not entitled because they do not
hold
Subject: Re: Accessing the BBC from outside the UK
From: dw...@infradead.org
To: j...@debian.org
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:23:53 +
CC: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 19:45 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
On a wider note, I am increasingly peturbed at the number
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:39:33PM +, bat guano wrote:
It's not necessary to have a TV license to access watch/listen again BBC
programmes from iPlayer.
But this is the relevant section from Terms of Use of BBC Online Services
that applies to get_iplayer
In this context I do not
I apologise if my tutorial has caused any problems. It contains details
on use for those in the UK - it does not contain any information on how
to access BBC material from outside the UK. Indeed, I am in the UK and
do not know how to access files from outside. It contains details on how
to set
On Thursday 05 January 2012 19:45:46 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
I had understood that get_iplayer was a way of getting round the BBC
embargo. But seems that I was completely wrong?
get_iplayer in itself is not a tool for contravening license conditions.
On a wider note, I am increasingly
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