spinynorman Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Groklaw has an interview with Mark Taylor, president of the Open Source Consortium in the UK. The main topic of conversation is the iPlayer. The interviewer had seen an analysis online which described the way it works in detail. Saying that it's a Verisign Kontiki architecture, it's peer-to-peer, and in fact one of the more worrying aspects is that you have no control over your node. It loads at boot time under Windows, the BBC can use as much of your bandwidth as they please, in fact I think OFCOM made some kind of estimate as to how many hundreds of millions of pounds that would cost everyone, there is a hidden directory called "My Deliveries" which pre-caches large preview files, it phones home to the Microsoft DRM servers of course, it logs all the iPlayer activity and errors with identifiers in an unencrypted file... The full interview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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