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BBC Offers Beethoven Symphonies for Download

Posted by Zonk on from the git-yer-free-music-here dept.

Simon80 writes "BBC Radio 3 is making performances by the BBC Philharmonic of Beethoven's 6th to 9th symphonies available for free download for the next few days only, as the second part of a trial to 'test listeners appetite for downloads'. During the first part, the first 5 symphonies were offered, and over 650,000 people downloaded them."

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  1. Test Results by PopeAlien · · Score: 4, Funny

    TEST #1: Appetite for free downloads
    - status: complete
    result: people like free downloads.

    TEST #2: Ongoing Appetite for free downloads
    - status: incomplete
    result: pending...

    I just cant wait to see what the results are!!

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  2. Typical by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Goddamn communist atheists at the BBC, sharing stuff. Don't they realise that if any of us stop grasping what is ours, society will collapse. You didn't see Jesus Christ preaching about sharing, did you.

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    1. Re:Typical by rohan972 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You didn't see Jesus Christ preaching about sharing, did you.

      It was the loaves and fishes thing that started it. And you thought they hate bittorrent.

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    2. Re:Typical by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 3, Funny
      Well ... make it into a catchy slogan of sorts ...
      The best way to think of file sharing is Jesus. Didn't he use one loaf of bread and one fish to feed thousands of people?

      File sharing: What would Jesus do?
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  3. They will soon be sued... by ratta · · Score: 3, Funny

    as they are breaking Beethoven's copyright.

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    1. Re:They will soon be sued... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Zombie lawyers?!

    2. Re:They will soon be sued... by RPoet · · Score: 3, Funny

      Is there any other kind?

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  4. Re:Hmmm by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny
    if you only listen to the Ode to Joy, and take it out of the context of the greater work, then it is mindless triumphalism.

    Yeah -- that's the best part!

    That's the way I like to watch the news too -- just fast forward to the explosions. Everything else is just an appetizer.

  5. Re:Hmmm by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're not making fun of our anthem now are you ?

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  6. Re:Torrent with all the symphonies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    sorry that's more than its worth.

  7. Another warning to audiophiles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the cable conecting you to your ISP isn't thick enough and does not have gold plated connectors it will sound even worse!

    1. Re:Another warning to audiophiles by Decimal+Dave · · Score: 4, Funny

      The music sounds great for me. Probably because I'm using a $3000 Monster cat5 cable to connect to the internet, through a JPS Labs broadband router, drawing power from an Audio Magic Clairvoyant AC Adapter.

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  8. Re:Torrent with all the symphonies by kamukwam · · Score: 2, Funny

    For those of you bold enough to leave the computer screen for a while, there probably is a local CD store near you where you can buy the whole set of beethoven symphonies.

  9. Re:Hmmm by william_w_bush · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed, the 4th movement, and the 3rd are still among my all-time fave tracks, but try to get a good performance, I have a 120MB rip of the 4th movement by Bernstein, which is incredible. Cheap dime cuts are pathetic compared to a good performance (this one is the weiner phil), and just not worth it.

    Been a while since I've been in a chill enough mood to sit down and enjoy them though, damn 5 second atten-hehe, i googled "boobs", hehe

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  10. Re:This is good but should go farther by strider44 · · Score: 2, Funny

    only if you get out a screwdriver (or a big knife), open your hard drive, tear out the piece of magnetic strip it's written on and give that to your friends.

  11. Re:A warning to audiophiles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    RMS error?

    RMS doesn't make errors.

  12. Thank goodness- I might have downloaded it by gadlaw · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank goodness I've got some Slashdot Anonymous Coward to tell me that Beethoven is crap. We all anxiously await your Symphonic efforts.

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  13. Re: Classic n00b question... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny


    > Mondschein, as it's called in German

    Yet somehow "Moonshine Sonata" doesn't convey quite the right idea in the Appalachian and Ozark states.

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