diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index a95b4aafe..67b83a39c 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -2062,6 +2062,7 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to parse video information: %s' % repr(err))
 				return
 
+		std_headers['User-Agent'] = 'iTunes/10.6.1'
 		return [info]
 
 
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 6b78f51cd..2853ba50f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ except ImportError:
 	import StringIO
 
 std_headers = {
-	'User-Agent': 'iTunes/10.6.1',
+	'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1',
 	'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7',
 	'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
 	'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',