On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Chris Warren wrote:
If a streaming-only client was distributed in binary form (to
ensure the software will always only be streaming-only) and keys
were sufficiently protected, and NDAs and commercial agreements
were signed you might get somewhere.
Binary offers no protection at all. Do the business people really
think that programmers can't understand and modify assembly (be it
for real machines or for VMs)?
However there's an additional point that people often forget is
that the BBC has (as any other entity) the need to protect its name
and brand. They can't allow one unauthorised client without
allowing them all
They could allow access to the HTML iPlayer. Then they have full
control over the branding and the client user-experience. And guess
what, this is precisely what the BBC do for many of the "authorised"
devices.
Then of course there's the legal position that the BBC would be put
in if it were to allow content to be shown on devices that it has
not been licensed for.
The BBC today has no control for iPlayer generally but the Geo-IP
check. Which is the same check it would apply if it'd allow more
clients to access HTML iPlayer. So this argument doesn't hold either.
regards,
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Paul Jakma p...@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
"The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as
we could with both of them."
-- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
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