florca wrote: 
> 
> Maybe a misplaced hope, but I wonder whether this fully "signed-in" BBC
> access might reduce the potential incentive for the BBC to squash apps
> like the LMS BBC iPlayer, or restrict them to low-bandwidth content?
> Although they loose one of their objectives, full control over the UI /
> presentation, they gain the user-profiling data which they seem to
> crave, although I suspect they have this anyway through IP address
> correlation.
> 
What could happen is that the BBC limit access to the API that the
plugin is using by requiring access through an API key.  My aim is to
make the plugin as compliant as possible with how they want the
interaction to be, so, if it does come to that, I can persuade them to
provide an API key.


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