BBC iMP

Yep - according to Ariel-i it will :

Have a downloadable programme guide - allowing you to schedule programmes to download when they become available.

Allow you to download programmes shown over the last 7 days.

Have rights management that will limit the period for which downloads can be played (7 days?)

Will use peer-to-peer techniques to reduce the load on the BBC servers.

(I wasn't, until the Ariel article, under the impression that the iMP would use peer-to-peer - I though this was for the creative archive...)

Wouldn't a p2p technique mean the possibility of people download files which aren't actually what they think, due to people simply renaming the files they've downloaded? Or would the BBC possibly use a method where the files have some kind of digital signature, and only files with the correct signature show up and be downloadable through their p2p system?

The latter is probably correct, it will have strong security in the file that will mean that only BBC Authored files can enter the system.

See my article on it on my website http://www.ryanmorrison.tv/v7/writing_story.asp?banner=&articleID=18004627

More on the iMP from today's Independent