Thanks for the tutorial! I just got it to work for ep1 of North Square on 40D. I would say that show qualifies as old content. But i can't get the downloader to work for any of the other eps. I've closed IE, reopened it, deleted history, I accept cookies on my IE settings, rebooted the computer - done everything I can think of but can't get it to work again.
I noticed that your tutorial doesn't mention how 40D requires one to register w/ an email and user name (which I've done) and log in before being allowed to play the content. I had to do that when I ripped ep1, this is what happened: After entering my log-in info and hitting "sign in", the little arrow spun, spun, spun and nothing happened; to get something to happen, I clicked a link on the sign-in box to learn more about cookies; the link to the info about cookies loaded in the downloader and then I hit "Back" to go to the previous screen where the content was; at that point, the page got past the "sign in" phase and asked me to "accept and play" the content. From there, everything went as you described above and the ep ripped.
But now with subsequent episodes, I can't get past the sign-in phase (the arrow spins and spins) and trying to force something to happen as I just described above doesn't work either - the video screen stays black and the URL bar in the downloader doesn't proceed past the URL for adverts.
Is there anything you can suggest? I've run out of ideas and permutations of things to try.
Thanks!