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BBC To Launch Music Download Store

Posted by timothy on from the cat-detector-van dept.

Jackson writes "According to a post on Cnet today, the BBC is working on a paid-for download, and ad-supported streaming music store, making available its entire archive of music recorded at BBC studios for TV and radio. The venture has major label backing and is rumoured to be launching next year. More interesting still is that the service will be run by BBC Worldwide — the commercial arm of the BBC — meaning downloads are likely to be available to the entire world, not just the UK. Beatles radio sessions, anyone?"

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  2. If Barack Hussein Obama Wins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We'll have to paint the White House black. It will be a national tragedy. Jermiah Wright will be Secretary of the Treasury and Louis Farrakhan Secretary of State. P-Diddy will be U.N. Ambassador. And the common Nigra will feel like he owns the country. A pure disaster.

    1. Re:If Barack Hussein Obama Wins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Also, he proposes eliminating all income taxes on the bottom 50% and making up for it by taxing the "rich". What he doesn't mention is that the bottom 50% are blacks and mexicans. The "rich" are white people. And not only will blacks and mexicans not be paying income taxes, but they'll also benefit from an increased government largesse, courtesy of those Americans who go to work every day. And you better believe slavery "reparations" will be on the table.

    2. Re:If Barack Hussein Obama Wins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      nice maths there hes actually taxing everybody its just that most people (read anybody poor enough to be reading slashdot instead of having thier butler do it) will be taxed less than they are under bush.