Pipe balance didn't last long

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Now that the BBC have opened up the iPlayer to download their content to all platforms (DRM free), I would

They have?
Did I miss something?

[#2]

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Download information Sorry, downloading BBC iPlayer programmes is currently only available for Windows. (Why?)

Nope, they've not. It's a hack.

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(It is necessary to use a Ruby script for it to work currently (for me), although I'm sure it would be possible to write a firefox plugin to do the job).

See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_iplayer_on_iphone_update_1.html

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It that is the iplayer thing, then I thought they'd blocked it already?

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That's the funny thing!
The Beeb were in such a rush to provide content for the iPhone, that they originally supplied a DRM free download if you changed your browser settings (user agent) to imitate an iPhone.
This was subsequently blocked.
They still supply a hidden URL to a DRM free download.
This is "security" by obfuscation - when does a trivial derivation of a URL become a hack?
In any case, I've paid my tv licence, so I would argue that what I did was perfectly legal - after all if I had an iPhone (who does?) it would do exactly the same thing.