P2P Doctor Who is now legal!

[Lord Dalek]

From OG:

BBC Worldwide has struck a licensing deal with popular bit-torrent provider Azureus to distribute legal episodes of Doctor Who to United States users early next year. The programme will be one of a number of high profile BBC titles available via Azureus' new Zudeo client software. The deal marks a significant first step for the broadcaster in Peer-to-Peer distribution.

Which episodes will be carried, and what costs will be involved, has yet to be announced. The current series is airing in the US on the Sci-Fi Channel, BBC America and soon in select markets on PBS. The classic series is airing only in a few US markets.

Way to go beeb!

[Jeff Harris]

>>Which episodes will be carried, and what costs will be involved, has yet to be announced. The current series is airing in the US on the Sci-Fi Channel, BBC America and soon in select markets on PBS. The classic series is airing only in a few US markets. <<

*spits Clover Valley Lemonade*

The current series is coming to PBS? Who in commercial-free glory? Fantastic. Please, oh please let it come to WHRO or UNC-TV.

[FinalDragoon]

But....Azureus is annoying, slow, and a resource hog....

[GrandMaster Funk]

Fantastic! Hope the same will go for Torchwood and hope PBS will air both the current and old series.

[Mr. Manager]

Sweet. It's cool to have them let it continue, rather than shutting them down.

and soon in select markets on PBS.

This part of the article is too awesome. I know it won't be as new as the Sci-Fi eps, but still. There's no commercials!

Now, I just hope my PBS picks it up. The last PBS I had was fantastic because they had The Office, Monty Python, and Nova all in one night.

[Duke]

The current series is coming to PBS? Who in commercial-free glory? Fantastic. Please, oh please let it come to WHRO or UNC-TV.

It's already on MPT.

[Conan-san]

And maybe we'll get something for the uk too?

Hahaha! Stupid Conan-san, of course not!

[Mynd Hed]

But....Azureus is annoying, slow, and a resource hog....

Word. I don't know why I used it for as long as I did; kept saying to myself, "Man, this whole bittorrent thing just isn't as cool as people make it out to be."

Then I switched to uTorrent, read the actual GOOD documentation (as opposed to the labyrinthine wiki crap that passes for Azureus' documentation) so that I could optimize all my settings, my download speeds tripled, and I got what all the hype was about. God I love uTorrent.

[Matt Hazuda]

Please, oh please let it come to WHRO or UNC-TV.

Good luck getting WHRO to run anything scifi. They seem concept on running old british comedies I'm tired of or junk I don't care for. UNC-TV stands a chance since they have run Red Dwarf at least.

[Duke]

You know, Azureus is only a resource hog when I'm using a slow connection (like 56K, ugh). When I was at college and had my broadband, Azureus ran nice and fine for me (and our broadband was leeched off of another college's). Then again, I don't really do much else on the computer besides type, surf the internet, and stuff like that anyway, so there's not much else to hog my resources.