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Title: The BBC, DRM and the demise (?) of get_iplayer. what the hell is going on?
Post by: sam on April 09, 2010, 02:45

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It’s never nice to hear about the demise of a piece of simply brilliant software. when I discovered that get_iplayer was being pulled by its developer I was, to use a cliche, gutted. The potential loss of a piece of software that did just what it said on the tin is bad enough but it was impeccably free and open. What’s more, it was an example to the BBC about how things should be done. It was the work of one lone, unpaid developer, not the product of professional developers subsidised by the BBC licence. What happened exemplifies everything that is wrong with proprietary software.

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bbc_drm_and_demise_get_iplayer_what_hell_going

Title: Re: The BBC, DRM and the demise (?) of get_iplayer. what the hell is going on?
Post by: Simon on April 12, 2010, 21:24

Phew!  It all seems a bit cloak and dagger, doesn't it?  I'm sure it will turn back up in a while, from another developer.

Title: Re: The BBC, DRM and the demise (?) of get_iplayer. what the hell is going on?
Post by: sam on April 15, 2010, 04:20

yeah, I know one of the guys  - well I used to live with one of them...