BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

[Jonathan Larmour]

Someone would post this, so it may as well be me:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37477229

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All users of the BBC's iPlayer service will have to log in with a personal
account from early 2017.

Users of BBC services can already create an online account - known as a BBC ID
- but this is not currently required in order to access iPlayer.

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So, anyone in the know about what will be involved? A simple webpage login
which get_iplayer may be able to just deal with? That's all that the BBC iD
login page looks like at the moment.

Of course this change may result in a lot of unhappy "Smart" TV owners whose
iPlayer apps don't get updated any more.

Jifl