Debian Bug#611473: get-iplayer: should not allow downloading entire iplayer site without explicitly requesting this

[Derek J. Balling]

On Feb 1, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Alan Pope wrote:

> On 1 February 2011 11:47, Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw at debian.org> wrote:
>> I ran an 'at' job overnight of the form
>> get_iplayer --get $(get_iplayer | grep 'my prog name' | cut -d: -f1)
>> 
> 
> Why even do that? Why not 'get_iplayer "my prog name" --pvradd
> "my_prog_name"', then cron/at "get_player --pvr"

Because he probably just said "oh, I want that program", and wanted to download it at a time of day when it wouldn't impact his own usage of the uplink.

He may not want any sort of "recurrence" that the pvr functionality sets up.

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