Friday, July 27, 2007
BBC iPlayer's bite
The much-hyped BBC iPlayer is now officially into Beta, so despite my disappointment with Joost, I thought it would be nice to be able to tune in and see what I'm missing out on, from time to time.
Problem 1: You have to live in the UK (presumably there's some IP address lookup going on)
Problem 2: You need Windows XP
As I'll be in the UK shortly, I fired up my XP VM to bookmark the sign-up page - then complete the registration from a UK IP address.
Until I read the small print, that is.
Clause 17 states: "When you install the BBC iPlayer Library you will also install peer-to-peer file sharing software from Verisign Inc. This software has a file share (sic) feature that allows other BBC iPlayer users to download BBC content through your personal computer (using part of your upload bandwidth), via a secure link, to their personal computers. ... When you use the BBC iPlayer Library you shall not have the option to 'switch off' the peer-to-peer functionality as this is a core component of the BBC iPlayer Library."
BitTorrent, byte by byte, is going legit.
However, for now, it looks as if µTorrent is more convenient.
Problem 1: You have to live in the UK (presumably there's some IP address lookup going on)
Problem 2: You need Windows XP
As I'll be in the UK shortly, I fired up my XP VM to bookmark the sign-up page - then complete the registration from a UK IP address.
Until I read the small print, that is.
Clause 17 states: "When you install the BBC iPlayer Library you will also install peer-to-peer file sharing software from Verisign Inc. This software has a file share (sic) feature that allows other BBC iPlayer users to download BBC content through your personal computer (using part of your upload bandwidth), via a secure link, to their personal computers. ... When you use the BBC iPlayer Library you shall not have the option to 'switch off' the peer-to-peer functionality as this is a core component of the BBC iPlayer Library."
BitTorrent, byte by byte, is going legit.
However, for now, it looks as if µTorrent is more convenient.
Labels: iptv, multimedia, nerd
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