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BBC to Cull the Cult TV Repository
malkavian writes "The BBC has announced that it's going to be ceasing to host it's Cult TV Repository. At a meager 700,000 users per month, it was decided that this was no longer a significantly useful public resource, as the information was also available elsewhere on the net. Many people believe this to be a grievous mistake on the part of the BBC, to allow the history of their own broadcasting highlights to fragment, and possibly be lost like so much of its other content."
After getting an additional 700,000 hits from the /. in just a couple of hours crowd maybe that will make them reverse their decision.
Damn, it's just so hard to be funny at work on fridays. Sorry.
ACK! Now how will I find the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?
Dont worry. Their mispelling things like this all the time.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
lost like so much of it's other content.
Hmm, us [sic] unsophisticated Americans use "its" - is this one of those British things?
Yes, it is...
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
They're cancelling the web sites for everything *except* for Doctor Who. What wonderful Bizarro-world-paradise have I woken up in?
This government is worryingly petty when it comes to meteing out revenge on those who don't believe its in the right the whole time.
Take the example of their recent new law to ban unauthorised protesting within a mile radius of parliment ( not sure it's a mile but some distance anyway ) which seems to be purely aimed at getting rid of the guy who has been sat outside protesting about the Iraq war for a few years. They have tried to get the courts and police to get rid of him but failing that they are willing to make up a specific law just to get rid of this one person who disagrees with them.
Easy solution. Send it to Google Video. They're actively looking for content to host.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Attention, visitors of bbc.co.uk/cult. I regret to inform you that in order to make way for the new hyperspace express route to our new repository of commercial brainwashing dumbing bullshit, your website has been scheduled for demolition. Have a nice day.