[Wolves] BBC iPlayer woes...

[Kris Douglas]

On 24/01/2008, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just been told by a lot of good friends on another mailing list
> about iPlayer problems :-)  Sorry, I can't help but crow about this..
> Apparently the iPlayer software is installing secret peer to peer
> networking software on every compatible 'Windows' PC that is placed
> upon.  It's secret because the BBC are not telling any of the users
> about it, or, at least not in the large print anyway.  It may be
> hidden away somewhere that they will end up seeding other users but it
> should be fully disclosed.  All PC's with iPlayer software are slowing
> to a literal crawl.  It sounds like the BBC could get into a bit of
> bother about this if they really are allowing the installation of
> undocumented software.
>
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>
> Kevan Farmer
> Linux user #373362
> Staffordshire
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They can't really get into any trouble about this, the computers
running the iplayer software should be able to stop the seeding of
files, but if you think, what if a load of people install this on a
network, It will rape bandwidth... So I'm not sure.


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