Entertainment For Lively Minds
It shouldn't, but it does
Posted by kinkywolfgang on 14 October 2008 - 6:23pm.
Please, DO NOT heed this man's advice and strip the DRM protection from BBC iplayer downloads. Because the files can then be kept on a hard drive for as long as one likes, watched on a regular TV set and even burnt to DVD.
And that would be absolutely wrong. So, don't do it.
Unsurprisingly, the fairuse4wm tool has been removed from the majority of download sites on the internet. You'll be lucky to find a copy using a straightforward Google search. About bloody time! Who need this piece of copyright-busting FILTH anyway?
Regrettably, the purge has not affected the world of P2P where anyone can download a fully working fairuse DRM stripper in minutes. Why oh why oh why etc.
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I want a nifty proxy wotsit
So that I could appear to be a presumably licence-fee-paying UK resident, when in fact I am currently engaged elsewhere, and so access the iPlayer and studiously avoid downloading anything by the pernicious means described above. Does anyone know where I might find such a device so that I can warn my children against its evil influence?
I don't know.....
....what kind of stuff you want to watch on iPlayer, but if it's any help, there is a private torrent site that only deals with programmes shown on UK tv. I think it's really for ex-pats who want to keep up with Corrie and Eastenders etc. Many thousands of torrents ranging from the evening news, soaps, and adverts to Jools, the football and most of the BBC4 (digital tv) music programmes. Lots of radio programmes too.
www.thebox.bz
Thanks, Stevie
I'm avoiding as we speak.
Off list
email sent.
Hotspot Shield
Hotspot Shield should do it
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/five-music-websites-will-change-yo...
Didn't work for me
Would let me see the radio programs, but not the TV
The iPlayer Geo-IP check
uses a subscription IP checking service. The BBC uses more than one of these; they tend to 'belong' to some internal division of the Beeb and get re-used within the corporation. I think the iPlayer team piggy-backed on the Quova service subscription that was initially paid for by BBC News Online.
What this boils down to is that when your IP address is checked for access to the Radio feeds, it might be by a different service to the one that's used when you access TV shows via iPlayer. Given that the services all update their IP allocation records seperately, and that they all use slightly different timetables to do so, it's entirely possible that at any one time one link from a BBC website will 'think' you're in the UK and another will not.
Home Taping is Killing the Music Industry...
does it work on a Mac?
Why bother with mirakagi etc?
just use Orbit and save the flv files if you want to watch over again or burn to media; the resolution is perfectly fine for 'catch-up' purposes.
I'm no fan of DRM, but I gave up stripping it from iPlayer wmv files months ago, as I just ended up with a hard drive full of progs I'd never get round to watching.
iPlayer was always meant as a catch-up service, not a delivery mechanism for high quality video.
The streaming option (which you can just as easily send to a TV screen) is of a much higher resolution than this time last year, and in the end, life's too short to be ruled by the idiot box.