bpa wrote: > I think one motive is the BBC is trying to hamper the "downloaders" and > we're just collateral damageI think you're 100% correct there. A few years > back I had a chat to one of the BBC Listen Again developers who I met at a conference and his (very unofficial!) view was that the BBC itself wasn't too bothered about how people accessed their broadcast content - their philosophy was to make it as widely and easily available as possible through pretty much any channel. However very large amounts of third party content (especially sport and recorded audio) came with significant rights restrictions, and the BBC were very worried that unless they enforced visible safeguards to restrict straightforward redistribution then obtaining this content for broadcast would become either impossible or horrendously costly. Since then there have also been the large BBC budget clamps and need to monetise as much of their own content overseas as possible.
get_iplayer etc. were and are a definite target but my take was that Squeezeplayer, although non-commercial, was regarded with benign support. This was obviously the personal view of someone fairly far down the food chain, and the thinking may have hardened since then (and many of the internal team have, I think, moved on or the work been outsourced :( ). However I suspect that there may still be some willingness to work with us if a reasonably secure answer could be found? 4x Slim Devices SB3 (White) 1x Boom, 1x Radio 1x Joggler + Squeezeplay / Squeezelite + Topping TP30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ florca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7486 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106409 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
