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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. 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.

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

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  3. 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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  4. 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...