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BBC Sends C&D Letters To Third Party iPlayer Developers

BBC Sends C&D Letters To Third Party iPlayer Developers

News Mobile & Telco

The British Broadcasting Corporation, the outfit behind the popular catch-up service iPlayer, has issued cease and desist orders to a pair of developers working on a third-party iPhone application for the iPlayer. BBC came to know about the application from the official filing that the developers had filed with Apple, and procured court orders, forcing them not to develop the application any further. The application, called Rewat.ch, was designed to allow iPhone users...



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