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New Dr. Who Episode Leaked

Posted by timothy on from the they-call-it-a-leak dept.

Cougem writes "BBC News is reporting on how an episode from the brand new series of the old science fiction TV show, Doctor Who, has been leaked onto the Internet. 'A 45-minute episode, called Rose, has appeared three weeks before the series is expected to begin on BBC One. Rose is the name of the character played by pop singer Billie Piper, who will be the assistant to the Doctor, played by Christopher Eccleston.' With people saying sci-fi appeals more to the technical minded viewer, will this TV show's release onto the Internet damage the ratings considerably for the BBC? Or is it a minor problem for a corporation whose role is just to provide the public with entertainment?" Maybe it will boost ratings, instead; the public buzz about "leaks" is still far ahead of the average viewer's ability to actually find and download.

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  1. it's on usenet by jo0ls · · Score: 4, Informative

    alt.binaries.drwho

    1. Re:it's on usenet by Sitchin · · Score: 3, Informative

      Um, now /. is violating the DMCA by posting information pointing to where copyrighted works may be downloaded.

    2. Re:it's on usenet by badmammajamma · · Score: 3, Informative

      To my knowledge, posting the newsgroup that contains the illegal copy, is not an infringement of the DMCA. If he were actually posting or distributing the illegal copy, that would be different.

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    3. Re:it's on usenet by thinkninja · · Score: 4, Informative

      http://www.newzbin.com/browse/post/1063941/

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  2. Har har by rde · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's shocking, really. They go to all that effort to keep it secret, and dirty bastards go and ruin it all by watching it months ahead of time. The file-sharing creeps.

    Having said that, it's a lot better than I expected. Billie Piper is a much better companion than I though she'd be, and the Doctor is quite credible as, er, a time-travelling alien. No mention of that half-human shite, which is nice.

    It'd be injudicious of me to mention that the file is called Rose1.avi, and is 366757888 bytes long, so I won't.

  3. Re:Billie Piper is a hottie. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    One
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    Three

  4. Just a FYI by falcon5768 · · Score: 4, Informative
    this is NOT the full pilot, this is 45 minutes of the pilot thats not through being finished and was distrubuted to a few places looking to pick up the series, so its quite a bit rough with the cgi, credits and theme not even being done.

    Likewise dont go into watching this expecting it to be the BSG remake others where hoping for, THIS IS DR WHO, like Dr Who of when I was a kid and where watching the 60's reruns. Its campy and funny and ejoyable and a real family show. I know a lot of people where hoping for it to be remade but its not they are making this to be just like the old shows minus the cardbord and celophane sets.

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  5. Re:Commence countdown to .torrent link... by dJCL · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go to www.demonoid.com
    Sign up for an account
    Search on "doctor rose"
    Download

    There are 58 Seeds right now with the file - I'm sure you will get it.

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  6. A link to the torrent by bort27 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentd etails&id=184585

    bort.

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    1. Re:A link to the torrent by bort27 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Seems /. inserted a space in the url. You can either s/\s// or just click here.

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  7. They do want this... by lxt · · Score: 5, Informative

    The BBC itself does actually want to try something similar, and you might have seen the articles here about the then director general Greg Dyke discussing a "BBC Archive", and I'm pretty sure the R&D dept. was messing around with Bit Torrent.

    However, the main problem (as with the BBCs "listen again" radio feature, but far more problamatic for TV) is the Writers Guild of Great Britain, which is extremely upset that the BBC plans to offer these shows without paying royalties to the writers. They have yet to bash out an additional payment to allow this...

  8. The great thing about a DL from the BBC . . . . by Tetsugaku-San · · Score: 4, Informative

    No adverts to edit out \o/

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  9. Re:Correction by easter1916 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Visit the BBC website and read its charter. You're both off, you moreso than the original poster.

  10. Doctor Who in Canada. by Dzimas · · Score: 3, Informative

    CBC was the first international network to license the new Dr. Who series - this was announced last October. The series starts on Tuesday April 5th, at 8pm in most time zones. I'm very impressed - that's only a few days behind the UK broadcast schedule. Its been so many years since I the heyday of Tom Baker - http://www.tombaker.tv/ - Let's hope the next 13 episodes are worth watching!