It seems that Mr Highfield is another person who thinks that being able to change your user agent makes you an evil h4x0r. If he persona in real life is the same as that BBC PR dept. projects I feel really sorry for those of you on this list he line manages, or indeed any of you who need to talk to him on a technical level. I too have had managers who seem to go out of their way to deliberately misunderstand issues.
Vijay. On 18/03/2008, Nick Reynolds-FM&T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People may be interested in this blog post from Ashley: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_iplayer_on_iphone_upd > ate_1.html > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Iain Wallace > Sent: 18 March 2008 12:59 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over? > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Iain Wallace wrote: > > > Aside from the Big Lebowski reference: What? > > > > I believe it's an analogy. > > I got that it was an analogy, thank you. I don't really understand what > the point of it was. > > I was invited onto this list by a member of Backstage staff who said > that it was a good place to discuss the iPlayer and hacking it to work > on exotic devices, and that's what I've done. > > I'm lost as to how this is analogous to knocking on someone's door and > pissing on their carpet, regardless of how much I appreciate the work of > the Cohen brothers. > > > However it was made very clear from the start that the only thing > > that those discussing iPlayer couldn't do was try to break any > > protections on the content. That's what is causing the problems on > > the list and the only thing on the wiki that is contentious. > > I must have missed the "start". > > Iain > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >
