[Wylug-discuss] BBC via bittorrent? (was:advice on ebook reader or similar...)

[Christopher McLean]

I'm going to take this off topic(ish), and open an interesting discussion we just had in the office. Based on the premise (which does link it to a Linux discussion, promise!) that downloading BBC shows officially might end for Linux users somewhere in the future.

I'm wondering about the legality of downloading a BBC show from a 3rd party bittorrent site that you would be able to watch legally via the iPlayer..... Surely it'd have to be in breach of some license somewhere (not that I've the time ATM to read through the iplayer license)? But, if support for downloading via the official channel is stopped for a chunk of the public who are normally allowed to do so, would this be a legal/ethical route to take?


Aaaand discuss :)

Chris




| -----Original Message-----
| From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk [mailto:wylug-discuss-
| bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John Hodrien
| Sent: 23 September 2011 11:07
| Cc: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
| Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] advice on ebook reader or similar...
| 
| On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Smylers wrote:
| 
| >> Having never used the client, not sure what benefits are missing by
| >> not having it?
| >
| > Being able to download programmes when you have an internet
| connection
| > and watch them when you don't.
| 
| Also for people on not-that-broad-broadband it means you can download
| an HD
| version of a program and not suffer from the crappy buffering of the
| web
| client.
| 
| jh
| 
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