Nitro API

[David Lake]

You're assuming that they are enabling an API key for WIDER distribution of the content - they aren't!

Or rather, their RIGHTS HODLERS don't want to.  Remember - this is not the same BBC that used to produce most of it's own content; the production companies are profit-centric operators, and, as with anyone that creates anything, they want to limit and charge for access.

The Beeb is currently a leaky-bucket with more holes than they can count and they don't even own the buckets.  They have an interesting balance to hit:

- Consumers who want everything for free now on every platform.
- Content owners who want to sell everything to the consumers everytime they watch/listen and can hold the Beeb to ransom.
- A Charter than demands open-access
- Almost none of their own infrastructure; totally reliant on Akamai, Limelight, etc.

The WHOLE reason why the kind of catch-up TV and radio that we have in Europe doesn't really exist in the US other than in very tightly-controlled systems such as Netflix is because few of the content producers are convinced that THEIR IPR can be managed sufficiently.

Auntie may have said MANY things - such as "we want global iPlayer" - but it may not be in their power to DELIVER that....

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From: get_iplayer <get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org> on behalf of David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk>
Sent: 03 June 2015 08:10
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Nitro API

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:02:23PM +0000, David Lake wrote:

> The idea of an API key is fine - the fact that Beeb has limited it to "commercial operators" and "BBC Employees only" is not.

They've said that they're going to open it up to the public, and we have
no reason to doubt that.

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David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice

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    feather.  Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.

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