Topic: The BBC, DRM and the demise (?) of get_iplayer. what the hell is going on?

[sam]

It’s never nice to hear about the demise of a piece of simply brilliant software. when I discovered that get_iplayer was being pulled by its developer I was, to use a cliche, gutted. The potential loss of a piece of software that did just what it said on the tin is bad enough but it was impeccably free and open. What’s more, it was an example to the BBC about how things should be done. It was the work of one lone, unpaid developer, not the product of professional developers subsidised by the BBC licence. What happened exemplifies everything that is wrong with proprietary software.

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bbc_drm_and_demise_get_iplayer_what_hell_going

[Simon]

Phew!  It all seems a bit cloak and dagger, doesn't it?  I'm sure it will turn back up in a while, from another developer.

[sam]

yeah, I know one of the guys  - well I used to live with one of them...