The BBC continues to wallow in the tarpit of DRM:

BBC U-turn: Full iPlayer service may never be available to Mac and Linux Users

Although the BBC has said it will offer streaming services for Mac and Linux, this does not provide an equivalent experience to the service provided for Window users of iPlayer. Because of DRM, the BBC is caught in a fundamental contradiction. In June 2007, Ashley Highfield, director of Future Media and Technology at the BBC, said:

“I am fundamentally committed to universality, to getting the BBC iPlayer to everyone in the UK who pays their licence fee.”

but now in October he says:

“We need to look long and hard at whether we build a download service for Mac and Linux. It comes down to cost per person and reach at the end of the day.”