You mean Data Protection act, not FOI. FOI covers government data held about you. Data Protection covers any data anyone holds about you.

I think the issue is that they have to defend the trademark, otherwise they lose it. I'd imagine Mazz could get away with just removing the Doctor Who reference, though the BBC could still complain about copyright infringement, but that would be somewhat petty.

You need to enable the developer console in the Advanced section of the options. There's a button called "Advanced..." I think, click that and it's one of the two or three checkboxes.

Is the password on the server necessary? You'd get more players without it.

Mac players - you can use Crossover Games. There's a free 30 day trial and it'll run on any Intel Mac. I use it on my MacBook Pro and it works almost as well as in Windows (except at slightly lower graphics quality).

I'd really like to visit the US (from the UK), but I'm not going to give my fingerprints to do so. Maybe I'll sneak in over the Canadian border ;)

They're not dealing with the problem, they're just trying to pigeon hole the victims of it. I can't claim to know what the problem is, but clearly something is making our society become more and more violent.

Well, someone will find out what they've changed and fix it. Should be possible to just packet sniff an iPhone's connection and play that back.

Southy, you can't, legally. Illegally, you visit the iplayer page, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer, find the video you want and open it. View the source for the page and find the text "pid :" and copy the code (something like b0094ytb) after that. Then just download http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/3/auth/iplayer_streaming_http_mp4/[the code] - it's an mp4 file.

It will continue to work as long as it works on the iPhone, unless Apple license them fairplay or they implement their own DRM player.

Maurik, it looks to me like uitzendinggemist is supported by adverts, which the BBC is not.

Well, Maurik, I imagine the market for dutch content is fairly limited outside the Netherlands.

I noticed this yesterday. It has to be intentional, the iPlayer doesn't support any DRM except FairPlay which Apple won't license. The BBC have fairly heavily promoted the iPlayer for the iPhone and clearly invested quite a bit of hardware time in the encoding of 400 hours of TV a day for the iPhone. It's unlikely that they accidentally forgot that they don't have any DRM on the video files and perhaps think that the gain of having it on the iPhone is offset by the risk of having fairly low quality rips of their programs out there.

Of course, the people they have to satisfy are the media creators and they have to show that they've done everything reasonable to prevent the content getting out. It'll depend if they consider a user agent check 'everything reasonable' or not. It's not as if you can't rip the DRM from the WMV files (which are higher quality).

We'll see if the beta gets pulled on Monday morning, I was hoping nobody would publicize it, but that cats out of the bag.