WANT TO TRY THE TOP BBC VPN RISK FREE?NordVPN is offering a fully-featured risk-free 30-day trial if you sign up at this page. You can use the VPN rated #1 for BBC iPlayer without restriction for a month. Needless to say, this is great if you're looking to binge British TV shows during a short trip abroad.
I have a very strange issue with the iPlayer client. I can download using Nord VPN without a problem on my Windows 10 laptop. I can also stream direct from the BBC to my TV using Chromecast. When I attempt to play a downloaded video the playback never starts, I just have a revolving circle on the client.
I can view bbc tv on iplayer out of uk on my pc but i cannot use my Samsung tablet. Any way around this problem?
I know bbc require using android greater than 4.1 which I do but still am not able to connect. Tablet was working on
november but not now. Will I have togive upon my tablet or just use my pc?
The issue I have with this solution is they can also access the BBC Sports sites which isn't acceptable. I've tried different match criteria in the custom URL category *(iplayer) but this doesn't work as the iPlayer URL is blocked www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer. Ideally I'd like a custom URL category that allows any URL with the string 'iplayer' in it.
It's just been reported that the BBC plan to deploy wi-fi detection vans to identify users who are streaming content from their internet service (BBC iPlayer) without a TV license. For example, see The Telegraph.
Unless BBC puts iplayer behind a paywall, any prosecution is going to be vulnerable to the "adverse possession" defence, i.e. the BBC did not make a reasonable, obvious effort to prevent contravention.
It is not just Norton. Many web sites do not allow access from known VPN IP addresses. They do this for copyright, legal, security, and political reasons. There is nothing a VPN provider can or should do to circumvent these legal protections. See the link in bjm_'s post above yours to How to Geeks article on why sites block VPNs.
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hello,
i bought your vpn service a couple months ago, it used to connect to bbc iplayer fine but no longer does. has bbc blocked your ip addresses? if so, this is a major disappointment. one of the primary reasons i bought it was for this purpose, as you advertised that you have a reliable service for this purpose.
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A number of our users have expressed concern about BBC iPlayer's recent content protection enhancements. It's a complex area so I asked our techical team for an explanation of what has happened. Here it is:
It's important to note that this has nothing to do with Flash, and it's nothing to do with support for open-source. In fact we continue to make our content available as H.264 or SSL, both of them open standards that have nothing to do with Flash or with Adobe. It's simply that the first people to be affected by this change happened to be linking to our Flash streams, which now have similar protection levels to our open-source streams.
Why does the BBC indiscriminately DRM all content rather than only the content that has restricted rights?
Home-grown programmes should be freely and openly accessible to UK taxpayers.
History shows that electronic copy protection doesn't work very well, so the BBC must know that it is honouring the letter and not the spirit of its rights agreements with media suppliers. Wouldn't it be better to work with them towards a better funding and distribution model that places fewer restrictions on rights?
The alternative is the BBC's platform will get sidelined by more innovative and accessible competitors. For example, it's quite easy to watch HULU via a US proxy or watch programmes on justin.tv.
Wow.
Presuming that this view is representative (and not a miscommunication/misunderstanding between the blog dept and others at BBC - I imagine this piece was collectively proof-read and OKed to some degree), it's now clear that the BBC at a managerial level not only fail to "get" the subjective high-level issues, they are also quite confused about utterly objective technical matters. E.g. this article is very confused about the term "open-source", and the contributors to this piece clearly have little understanding of the term and hence surely little appreciation of why users of open-source software have raised so many questions. Then there's stuff like thinking "download" and "streaming" are different things. Or mentioning SSL as fulfilling an equivalent role to H.264.
If that is the case, then I wonder if perhaps the poor grasp of the technology fundamentals is a major contributing factor towards the "poor" decision making on the high-level issues?
There are a number of eloquent people in the free software community who no doubt you could engage with, who would help familiarise you with the issues (in addition to whatever technical explanations you need to get from the fine technical folk at the BBC). Many of those people, and many less prominent free software users have been trying to engage you for years now, frustrating as it can be when it seems to result in nothing but ever more DRM and other measures to frustrate free software. Worse, we have to listen to condescending justifications from people who clearly do not understand even the relatively inarguable, factual foundations to the issues.
As for me, it seems clear to me now that the BBC has no wish to allow me to be able to legally watch high-quality streams using free software (and I'll ignore the patent issues with some openly /specified/ formats and codecs as a battle for another day), as you've managed to break get_iplayer.
Instead, if I wish to be able to watch high-quality BBC material via the internet (e.g. cause I forgot to record it) *AT ALL* using free software, then my only option now is to download Freeview rips using Bittorrent and the like.
I.e. your position aligns my interests, as well as the rest of a small but significantly more technical-than-average subset of internet users, with those who pirate your material.
Well done!