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BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is to to put it's entire radio and television archive online, free for everyone, as the BBC Creative Archive." The article is a little thin on how far back these archives go, but regardless, this is a gigantic amount of data, and to see it go online, and open to the public is very cool.
Finally, I can see the last 5 episodes of "Alo, Alo"!
I believe Taco Shack have a "100 Tacos for $100" offer at the moment, if you're planning to do a Doctor Who marathon and are in need of adequate sustainance to keep you going.
This news absolutely makes my day. Week! If they manage to do this just a little, this just made my year.
Quotes like this:
"I believe that we are about to move into a second phase of the digital revolution, a phase which will be more about public than private value; about free, not pay services; about inclusivity, not exclusion.
Doesn't that single quote look more exciting than a whole porn site? :-)
The whole BBC library! All the documentaries and stuff... all the Monty Pythons, all the Young Ones, all the Bottoms, all the AbFab, all the Men Behaving Badly, all the Blackadders!
All the cricket Test matches they used to broadcast!!
Oh... Excuse me, I think I just wet my pants.
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
Does this mean if you query the cluster archive with 'why' 'archive' it will tell you 42?
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
I'll take the classic Klitch opening move of Waterloo. Anyone to follow?
My friend used to use windows media player as his mp3 player. He stopped using it after we made fun of him.
Other things we made our friend quite doing:
- Talking to girls
- His Dr. Who scarf was too short. Man, was that a riot.
- He was living in his mom's basement (pretty normal like the rest of us) but he tried to do his own laundry! Quite the ribbing on that one. 35 year olds don't do their own laundry.
- His episode of "Pretty Soldier Sailormoon" is the censored version where Usagi and Mamoru fall off the balcony WITHOUT the umbrella. Man, what a dork.
Oh, there's plenty of others, but don't get me started!
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Wouldn't 'free, legal TV entertainment downloads' result in absoloute outrage from the MPAA and friends? I can't see it ever happenning....
The BBC doesn't listen to the UK government, let alone one of your USA corporations. If the USA entertainment industry doesn't like it, tough titties.
Yeah, my hard drive is about to take a world class a**-f***ing.
Doctor Who
The Prisoner
Hitchhikers Guide (Radio. Didn't care much for the TV.)
Blake's 7
Red Dwarf
Faulty Towers
Monty Python
Etc... Etc...
The real wonderful thing to think about here is not all the free video and audio, but the way having all this free video and audio around will inspire new writers to create stories like these.
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I don't see that the British Broadcasting Company would really give a fuck, fucktard.
BitTorrent is terrible on dial-up
What is NOT terrible on dial-up?
They got to see ad-free television produced by people who were willing to take artistic risks because the they weren't subject to the tyranny of the marketing department... ... and ended up with Noel's House Party.
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"In particular, it will be about how public money can be combined with new digital technologies to transform everyone's lives."
Everywhere in hollywood, stars and middlemen, flunkies and directors, aging rockers and CEOs woke up screaming.
"No.. no, not the Internet! Don't put it ON the INTERNET AAAAHHHHHH, OUR CONTROL, OUR MARGINS! NO PEOPLE NEED USSSSSSSSSSSS!!"
You heartless British bastards.
Novel theory: Modern Man evolved from psychopath