On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Andrew Bowden wrote:
There are people in the BBC who would love to let you do more with
iPlayer. And there are people in the BBC who are concerned about
people doing that. Cos how do you tell someone that the buggy app
they've just used isn't actually by the BBC and that it's not the
BBC's fault that it sucks? It's the BBC content after all... [1]
These issues can all be side-stepped by allowing access to HTML
iPlayer.
- Client only provides the transport
- BBC controls the UI
- BBC applies its existing Geo-IP checks (which are deemed sufficient
for the general access Flash version)
- Only question is browser compatibility, but that's not about
branding or piracy, and there are only a limited number of browser
framework implementations.
Some people inside the BBC have the strange notion Flash provides
some additional protection, which the HTML version would not. They
are simply wrong, I am afraid - as empirical reality should show
them. ;)
regards,
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