OT: BBC iPlayer and peer-to-peer

From: "Paul D.Smith" <paul_d_smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:14:03 -0000

All,

Perhaps I missed the discussion of this aspect of the BBC iPlayer but I was
amazed to discover last night that the iPlayer uses P2P technology and
effectively requires me to "trust" the BBC to have access to my computer.

Of course it's a "trusted network" etc. etc. but I'm totally paranoid about
such opaque access to my PCs, which is why my virus count for the last 10
years is a nice round zero!

I presume there is no legal way to get the BBC stuff without using their P2P
network?

Paul DS.

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