BBC cease and desist order puts down iPhone iPlayer app

Manchester based iPhone developer Camiloo unveiled Rewat.ch last month. The application, £1.19 at launch, would have allowed users to browse all BBC iPlayer RSS feeds from a simple user interface on their iPhone or iPod touch.

A YouTube demo showed the ability to browse by channel, day, programme genre, and by the first letter of the programme name or by a search term.

Last week however, Camiloo posted a message on the Rewat.ch website: "Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to release rewat.ch. If you have emailed want@rewat.ch, please be assured that we have removed your email address from our list."

Mark Newby, Managing Director at Camiloo revealed more details when Macworld contacted the studio earlier this week.

"We were given a cease and desist order by the BBC legal department despite our best efforts to try and meet the BBC's requirements in any way possible," Newby said.