BBC Offers Beethoven Symphonies for Download

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."

Comments

Test Results

[PopeAlien]

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!!

Typical

[gowen]

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.

Love,
The Republican Party

Re:Typical

[rohan972]

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.

Re:Hmmm

[william_w_bush]

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

Thank goodness- I might have downloaded it

[gadlaw]

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

Re:Another warning to audiophiles

[Decimal Dave]

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.