“The BBC has issued a fix to stop people downloading programmes from the iPlayer website that were intended for streaming on an iPhone or iPod only,” The BBC reports.
“Hackers had discovered an exploit that allowed them to save the programmes to hard disk and share them with others,” The Beeb reports. “Rights issues mean the BBC is only able to offer streamed programmes for up to seven days after broadcast.”
“The BBC admitted that it was most likely facing a cat and mouse game with hackers intent on circumventing copy protection,” The Beeb reports.
“The BBC announced a version of the iPlayer for iPhone and iPod touch owners last week,” The Beeb reports. “The content for the phones and iPod is streamed as an MP4 file without copy protection and hackers quickly realised that they could access the file using a simple plug in for Firefox.”
Full article here.
I bet this is the same plug-in as the one that lets you save UTUBE’s flash files.
Sorry. YouTube. Don’t talk and type people. It doesn’t work.
@ Cubert
We will forgive you just this once.
U R write Kuburt, it doan work wen U talk n type
Sorry I meant werk not work
I really hate seeing that cult ad on this site for Barack Obama.
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and I really hate your constant bitching about it.
The Beeb is getting what they deserve. Macs take second place with them.
How can they stop screen grabbing software (Snapz pro and others)? Forget DRM and stop harming the honest people.