My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:01:06AM +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> On Wed Jun 3 23:51:38 BST 2015, tellyaddict wrote:
> >Do you think this was aimed at us?
> Hi - if by "us" you mean the GiP users, I honestly
> don't think we are their sole concern; their actions
> in general aim to cripple all "3rd party apps & services",
> to keep their rights holders happy - from:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/bc82562e-ea9d-4655-982d-e6219b2c877b
> I quote:
> >It's also possible that there are unauthorized & unidentified
> >3rd party apps & services that use Dynamite;
> >these will stop working.
> the emphasis being on "unauthorized & unidentified ",
> so they have no remorse if those break - check also
> the comments on the linked blog entry for more outcry
> expressed...

I believe you misunderstand and are reading intention where there is
none. I don't think that their aim is to harm third party applications,
it's to make their own internal systems work better.

get_iplayer *is* unauthorized and unidentified. My own iplayer2rss
scripts, which I used to get automagic notifications of stuff on iPlayer
that would be worth watching, were also unauthorized and unidentified.
Unauthorized and unidentified doesn't mean that they hate it. In fact, I
wrote my scripts *while I was working at the BBC on Dynamite*. I showed
them to my colleagues *and managers*. They thought it was a really good
idea and some of them started using them as well.

You're being paranoid.

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