BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 10:09 +0100, RS wrote:
> >From: Mark Goodge Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 09:25
> 
> >> Of course this change may result in a lot of unhappy "Smart" TV
> >> owners whose iPlayer apps don't get updated any more.
> 
> >I would imagine that the BBC has a separate system for those, possibly 
> >based on the API.
> 
> At present the BBC's attitude seems to be that if your Smart TV is more than 
> 2 years old that's tough; they can't be bothered to support it.  Who changes 
> large televisions every two years?

Anyone who wants iPlayer on them to keep working... and who can't
manage setting up something based on get_iplayer to act as a
proxy/relay to keep them working :)

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dwmw2
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