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- buddamus, on 04/09/2009, -0/+115Lets hope this kind of thing gets the ball rolling
- Crisender111, on 04/10/2009, -0/+78Kudos to BBC for taking the right step ahead.
- agentsrecord, on 04/10/2009, -0/+58Way to pony up, BBC. Dugg for thinking outside the traditional Media Empire guidelines.
- dan0964, on 04/10/2009, -0/+38I ***** love the BBC, Glad they pay my wages ;)
- enthreeoh, on 04/10/2009, -1/+39Brings some more legitimacy to bittorrent.
- AravindJose, on 04/10/2009, -1/+34Was so sure of this. Hats OFF to BBC.
They've proved, they've got sense. - kent1146, on 04/10/2009, -1/+33Wait, what? A legitimate use of BitTorrent technology to legally distribute content?
But... but... doesn't that put a giant hole in the RIAA's argument that BitTorrent automatically equals piracy? Won't someone please think of the poor RIAA? /s - joeydoo, on 04/09/2009, -0/+30Very cool. The asset bundle is just the icing on the cake. If this takes off that will be a great resource for fledgling podcasters and independent web video producers.
- alexcroox, on 04/10/2009, -0/+28Incredible website, awesome iPlayer, they must have an incredible development team!
- jhails, on 04/10/2009, -0/+23Credit where credit is due. Congratulations to the BBC for thinking ahead of the curve.
- calypsis, on 04/10/2009, -0/+21BBC is now one of the few broadcasters stepping into the 21st century!
- inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+19I hope more media outlets follow the leader on this one.
- GeorgeWright, on 04/10/2009, -0/+18Hi sej7278 thanks. I run the team that co-produced this. We like plain old FTP too, which is why we did this! Gopher version, anyone?
BBC R&DTV can do this because we approached it this way from the beginning and it's a trial. This is not something that the BBC's normal output can do at the moment.
I've posted a small update here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rad/2009/04/updates_on_ ... about some bloopers (including a glitch in the Ogg version up on the FTP site at first , now fixed)
But enough of that, did you like the show?
@alexcrooxalexcroox thanks. We're a very small team but we think we rock.
@joeydoojoeydoo - right. The asset bundle is, for me, most exciting. New distribution and free codecs are very cool, and obv. important, but it's the CC licence and access to the assets that allows new shows to come out of this. Enjoy! - norman619, on 04/10/2009, -0/+17Well they are supported by public money....
- cslawren, on 04/10/2009, -0/+16I pray they bring Top Gear to bittorrent.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+15Yes, but it creates legitimacy in the eyes of the public who have only heard the RIAA side of the story and think that bittorrent is *only* used for copyright infringement.
No-one's trying to change the views of the RIAA etc. but if we can legitimise it for the populace as a whole it makes the RIAA's fight that much more difficult. - inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+15This makes me want to move to the UK. I Love you BBC!!!
- juhache, on 04/10/2009, -0/+14£142.50 a year license fee, or 3 minutes of adverts every 15 minutes.
Plus iPlayer & p2p distribution.
BBC for the win, don't think there is an outlet like it, so it's doubtful anyone else will take this stance. - Slym, on 04/10/2009, -0/+11If Doctor Who alone didn't justify the license fee then I'm sure this or the Iplayer do. Wonderful job BBC.
- norman619, on 04/10/2009, -0/+11Doubtful. BBC is publically funded while most other networks are ad supported.
- inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+9Way to go BBC!!
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+9I usually justify my license fee with Top Gear, but the principle is the same :)
- Twinnie, on 04/10/2009, -1/+9TV license is one bill I'm happy to pay.
- boldfire, on 04/10/2009, -0/+8I think, and hope, things like this really silence the "the tv licence fee is wasted on garbage blah blah blah immigrants" crowd (also known as Daily Mail readers). It's a great initiative and once again is thinking outside the box.
Off topic: the HD version of iPlayer is meant to be launching in the next few weeks. - mark5hs, on 04/10/2009, -0/+8Neat. Now they'll be available to everyone. BBC already has their shows online on their iplayer, but that's only accessible by British IPs. Good job BBC. Hopefully other companies can follow suit.
- SSUK, on 04/10/2009, -0/+8... with this one.
- snake1025, on 04/10/2009, -0/+8you suck ! :)
- AzzX, on 04/10/2009, -0/+7Nice work BBC. The Doctor would be proud.
- aeiou, on 04/10/2009, -0/+7Sure. Why not? Just put adds in the video like they do with all of their content. I gladly watch adds in return for legally being able to watch the content I want when I want to in a high quality format. Only problem Being I think its hard to track viewers with bittorent, which the advertisers will want before they shell out the cash.
- Macintoshreader, on 04/11/2009, -0/+6Awesome. BBC FTW!
- hulkamaniaz, on 04/10/2009, -0/+6BBC is always a cut above :)
- mabsark, on 04/10/2009, -0/+6In this case, it's money well spent.
- GeorgeWright, on 04/10/2009, -0/+6@Emachine, yes, indeed, both the CBC show and the NRK torrent stuff were things we were aware of and excited by. I'll update our blog to point people at these too. We referenced the stuff that NiN did in an interview, but should give props there too.
- Susarodr1981, on 04/10/2009, -0/+6BitTorrent is strong
- beesaretasty, on 04/10/2009, -0/+6They've been distributing themselves on BitTorrent for years....
- chevriley, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5admittedly the production values are poor, but the show is far from bad.
interviews with kevin rose, the guy from the OLPC project, that BBC computer dude and the awesome surround video thing. the content is very good and very valuable to people who want to put together their own stuff. definitely not second rate content.
on the other hand, surely they should be able to find a £100 lighting kit somewhere in Television Centre. :P - NorrisOBE, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5Cool. Let's hope they will do this with all their other shows. I hope C4 would do the same too.
- bbliss17, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5I wish nbc, cbs, abc would follow suit. They need to learn from BBC
- number11, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5yeah probably top gear , and other good stuff too like QI, Have I got news for you and the nature documentaries, they do some good stuff
- Travelsonic, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5Unfortunately, it is true. The RIAA/MPAA/BSA will still falsely claim it is nothing but a tool for piracy, good uses be damned.
Doesn't change the fact that the legit uses are becoming more and more common place, and more people will know better than to go on the RIAA/MPAA/BSA's word though. - Emachine, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5Canadian CBC beat the BBC to it a few months ago, although it was just one ***** show nobody would have cared for otherwise.
proof: http://www.cbc.ca/nextprimeminister/blog/2008/03/d ... - scarwars, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5well.. BBC is not the leader, NRK (Norway) has been releasing it's shows on bittorrent for the last few months.
Full 1080 - inactive, on 04/11/2009, -0/+4c4 on demand service is pretty good. I watch the inbetweeners on there at the mo, v handy.
- Warom, on 04/11/2009, -1/+5No, they aren't gonna die if they have a fixed source of income and are in control of the first 2 channels of TV.
- mabsark, on 04/10/2009, -0/+4BBC is way bigger than NRK
- sej7278, on 04/10/2009, -1/+5i can't believe this of the bbc - ever since they hired that ex-microsoft exec as the chief they have been "oh you need flash 10 for this" or "you need silverlight for that" or "you can only access this from the uk" - always using the most bleeding-edge and vendor-locked-in software they could find, and usually windows-only (or with some crumby feature-poor version for mac/linux when the monopoly guys get on their backs).
i almost ***** myself when of all things i saw an ogg theora file on an plain old ftp server - wow no drm, a format that works on any platform, has the bbc just done the biggest u-turn in history?! jees next we'll be hearing that france has legalised p2p.
well done for a change aunty. - inactive, on 04/11/2009, -0/+4I remember downloading that and never watching it...
- Travelsonic, on 04/10/2009, -0/+4Rapidshare is becoming increasingly and rapidly retarded.
- AravindJose, on 04/10/2009, -0/+4So true.
- atgmac, on 04/11/2009, -0/+4The BBC is funded by the public, which means they can do what the public want.
Conventional broadcasters are funded by the advertisers, which means they _have_ to do what the advertisers want.
Advertisers would never allow creative commons+torrents, so it probably couldn't happen with an ad-funded broadcaster. -
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