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ends here... BBC iplayer not accessible down under...
This fantastic offering from the BBC enables you (or rather those in Pommy land) to download their fab content to your PC and watch it at your leisure. Only problem is it's IP restricted so not accessible here.
I got all the way into it having had an email with iplayer user name and password, accessing the site, setting up a BBC user account and was stopped when I tried to download something.
I was trying to do the proxy thing to get the BBC radio commentary during last Ashes series - not much success. They must have forgotten to restrict access for the first test, because I could access that, but after that, no joy.
I heard Mark Scott on 702 ABC Sydney a couple of weeks back saying that the ABC were looking at a similar concept to the BBC iplayer for here. No help with the BBC content, but it's a positive move I suppose.
Justin
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I got all the way into it having had an email with iplayer user name and password, accessing the site, setting up a BBC user account and was stopped when I tried to download something.
It let me register easy - just waiting on my login details now. It also said if you're using Windows Vistaor Mac you can't download the software, so I assume maybe some sort of early Windows DRM code is included?
Is big brother watching when you use these kind of sites? A few weeks back the Green Guide ran a feature on illegal downloading, fines etc - no way this could be considered that is there?
It let me register easy - just waiting on my login details now. It also said if you're using Windows Vistaor Mac you can't download the software, so I assume maybe some sort of early Windows DRM code is included?
There's no problem registering, it's when you download stuff, or try to, that you get shut out. Which may imply that certain content will be available to people outside the UK at some point..
Suggestion to Beeb - let's have the last 200 years of Top Gear and anything Jeremy Clarkson has done (OK so early days he had really bad hair, but he was still good!).
as hell...
They must have forgotten to restrict access for the first test, because I could access that, but after that, no joy.
