British TV Station Offers Downloads

Posted by timothy on Monday March 21, 2005 @08:37PM from the put-your-license-to-work dept.

Richard W.M. Jones writes "Remember how the British just love to download TV? Well, British terestrial TV channel five has announced that it will become the first to offer TV programmes to download legally. Except that they don't quite seem to get it yet. They are offering here some videos from this car programme which apparently didn't quite make it to air, for the princely sum of £1.50 (about $3), in DRM'd WMV 10 format (mplayer plays them fine). Still, it's a start, and it looks like they're just testing the water. Hopefully they won't take the lack of response as 'proof' that there's no demand. There's more about this at the BBC's website."

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MOD PARENT DOWN by a.koepke · 2005-03-21 20:53 · Score: 1, Redundant

He has linked to his own page which markets a book through Amazon's affiliate program.

The post is spam, plain and simple. A quick look at his user page shows it's not the first time he's done it, either.

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