BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

[CJB]

This appears to be a requirement for each individual viewer. Yet
aren't TV Licenses issued for households or families? Certainly a
password coupled with a License fee registration number would
required. Which raises the scenario of one License fee no. coupled to
multiple passwords - one for each member of a family.

So multiple passwords appear more likely rather than more up-to-date
iris-scans or thumb-prints.

Then what about students in shared accommodation with wifi / broadband?

Share and share alike I guess. Kind a makes a mockery of the need for security.

CJB

On 27/09/2016, Jonathan Larmour <jiflgetiplayer at jifvik.org> wrote:
> Someone would post this, so it may as well be me:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37477229
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 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.
>
> [...]
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> 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
>
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