Setting the facts straight
Post categories: ´óÏó´«Ã½
| 15:16 UK time, Friday, 5 March 2010
So to clear things up once and for all on the recent changes, Ian Hunter Managing Editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Online, fills in all the details on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ internet blog.
Most of the post is about our commitment to open source, which is worth pointing out - has never changed. But there is also a chunk about the 3rd-party applications here...
Later in the post, Ian says...We also implement a range of technologies that attempt to check that our content is being played out in iPlayer, and not in an unauthorised 3rd-party application. This is because we need to be as certain as we can be that our content rights restrictions are being respected.
This is the key to the concerns being expressed at the moment: before we allow a device to access our content we need to check that it is iPlayer and not an application which might break our rules - for example, by storing programmes beyond the 30 day limit, or playing them outside the UK.
We know that a number of applications have been making unauthorised use of some media types and we have tightened security accordingly - this was done for several of the formats and content delivery types, not just for Flash. The result was that some applications that 'deep link' to our content may no longer work.
It's important to note that this has nothing to do with Flash, and it's nothing to do with support for open-source. In fact we continue to make our content available as H.264 or SSL, both of them open standards that have nothing to do with Flash or with Adobe. It's simply that the first people to be affected by this change happened to be linking to our Flash streams, which now have similar protection levels to our open-source streams.
unfortunately , an open-source media player.Indicating that the change was not directed at XBMC or the open source community. Talking of changes, the issue was also in fact a bug and not in anyway related to the iplayer changes.
You can feedback on the reply directly using the blog comments or as you might have discovered Backstage has a very active mailing list which you .
Comments