BBC To Launch Music Download Store

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 3, 2008 @08:07AM 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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Re:Publicly funded? by Ilgaz · 2008-09-03 11:14 · Score: 0, Troll

The same EMI who dared to sell copy protected CDs on certain areas of planet which they think they are likely to rip their content. Speaking about racial profiling and discrimination.
If there are people hoping it will be an international store which you may use just because it is "BBC Worldwide", don't hope too much.
I don't understand why companies try so hard to drive people to piracy.