New get_iplayer website & forums

[Christopher Woods]

With some fairly obvious modifications to logos it would be simple to avoid 
'easy target' legal action on the basis of trademark infringement.

You are really putting your head in the lion's mouth with the stylised 
logo, smashing that it is! :)

The site itself appears to not infringe in other respects as it's basically 
a very good community produced FAQ for a niche piece of software which (on 
its own) only functions for UK residents.

I have less sympathy for Radio Downloader; AIUI it deliberately offered a 
mechanism for people outside of the UK to download UK-only programming. 
Also the author rather foolishly suggested people could donate money to him 
through PayPal to support his work (and still does).

Other iPlayer-based projects have been canned for similar reasons, such as 
a cracking Windows Mobile 6 app which took the old Nokia streams and 
wrestled them into a format suitable for my old phone... Because the author 
naively produced a 'Pro' version which incorporated iPlayer content as a 
key selling point.

The reason get_iplayer survives is because it's free both as in speech and 
as in beer!



On 16 July 2013 23:35:23 Derek Balling <dredd at megacity.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 16, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Tony Scholl <ajscholl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I hate to be a killjoy, but please think about moving back to 
> squarepenguin.co.uk and
> > removing the iplayer logo before running into big trouble, which may
> > spoil all our fun.
>
> You're 100% correct.
>
> This is taunting them with the project which is just begging for trouble.
>
> D
>
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