Today's iPlayer News is…
I seem to be commenting quite a bit on the BBC iPlayer these days. I think there are two reasons for this. Firstly, as a
Anywho, there are two new pieces of iPlayer news. Firstly, the Windows only, badly designed, almost unusable, ill-conceived download version, went offline due to a database problem. No one noticed.
Secondly, the ability to download shows by spoofing your user agent, that I hinted at earlier, has been removed. Confirming that this was an oversight, and not an attempt to give the iPlayer some usable functionality (perish the thought!).
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