BBC goes P2P !
I’ve came across very interesting piece of news during my today news reading session – BBC decided to try sharing their exclusive content via peer to peer application, and become one of these filesharing sites. The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the organisation, BBC Worldwide, and technology firm Azureus. The agreement means that users of Azureus’ Zudeo software in the US can download titles such as Little Britain. Until now, most BBC programmes found on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks have been illegal copies. Azureus is best known for developing a BitTorrent client, or program, that allows large media files to be easily shared over the internet. The program has been downloaded more than 130 million times (but sorry, I don’t like it, it’s eating too much resources).
The new deal means that users of the software will be able to download high-quality versions of BBC programmes, including Red Dwarf, Doctor Who and the League of Gentleman. Classic series such as Fawlty Towers will also be available through a BBC “channel”. The titles will be protected by digital rights management software to prevent the programmes being traded illegally on the internet. “This will be a very different experience from traditional file-sharing networks,” said Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Azureus. Users will also be able to link to programmes from blogs, social networks and fansites. “If you have Zudeo running it will take you to that programme; and if you don’t, it will suggest you install it, like the first time you download a flash movie,” said Mr BianRosa. It looks some clever brain finally realized there are also some cons in service responsible for the bigest traffic share on the world…
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Those idjits still don’t know how to use p2p-technology properly
I don’t want another client for BBC’s programs, I don’t want to use their site to dl the torrent and I wont download DRM-protected files.
Why o’ why cant they just post the basic torrent to public site like mininova…
If it’s money they want, I would even tolerate commercial break or two in the show. After all, we are THE most important target audience in the world.
Well this is a nudge in the right direction anyway
word!
Great news, all the best !
yeah, but no advertising company is going to pay to put an ad in a video download, cos everyone can just skip past it.
Just like they say, there’s no such thing as a free lunch…
DRM is teh suck
I read theyre putting stichk DRM in it ? Well if they are trying to stop distribution well look it is already going on, idiots Scene quality is going to be better than the crippled crap they are going to push out.
wait, i’m confused…
they are going to distribute it via P2P network, but, they put in DRM to prevent distribution?
ummm… isn’t the whole point of P2P networks TO DISTRIBUTE?
that’s just backasswards. makes no sense.
i guess they still don’t get it, it’s DRM that stops people from getting content. until the DRM is gone, and we can watch it the way we want it, when we want it, we the people are not going to fully embrace it. even the moronic public at large is getting annoyed with DRM now that they are figuring out those songs they downloaded legally online they can’t move so easily to their new iPod or other music device and are getting really pissed off, since they paid for the content.
if we pay for it, it’s ours. if you let us do with what we pay for as we want without crippling it, then we’ll buy it.
personally, i’ll watch most commercials if i can get the content in the way i want it.
Thing is though. the BBC cannot put adverts in the content because the British tv license payers pay for the content. and I for one, im not happy with this move. why should another country get for free, what we have to pay for by law? And then we cant even directly download it?
The foreigners like dumb Americans should pay like the rest of the world if they want BBC shit. Assholes