700K Beethoven downloads!
p2pnet.net News:- Nearly 700,000 lovers of Beethoven snagged live performances of his first five symphonies when the BBC offered free downloads as part of a week-long trial.
The music was performed as part of The Beethoven Experience on Radio 3 and the works were performed by the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, says the Beeb.
"This trial was all about gauging listeners’ appetite for downloads and the results are astonishing," Roger Wright, Radio 3 controller is quoted as saying.
The downloads came between 5 and 10 June when Radio 3, a classical music station, played Beethoven’s complete works in one week.
The remaining symphonies, six to nine, will be available to download for seven days after they’re broadcast later this month, adds the story.
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BBC – 700,000 download Beethoven music, June 16, 2005
June 17th, 2005 at 3:48 pm
Strange people, his complete works are available as a 4gig file on the mule!
June 17th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
True, but the ‘mule and the ‘wire are still know by relatively few people.
What this shows, though is that more and more people are becoming aware of filesharing. Once filesharing and the appropriate programs (no spyware and open source) used become known to the masses, the media cartel will lose all control over information. I am looking forward to the day when information will be completely free. Once people have the right information, then the rest of the government-cartel infrastructure will be forced to change in favor of the comman man.
June 17th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
Beethoven’s 1st?
June 17th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
You got it : )
Cheers!
June 17th, 2005 at 11:16 pm
Information may one day become free but just like the CD/DVD-R/RW prices went up – the cost for broadband will likely get a ‘piracy tax’… let’s guess at something like $20/month for every line, dialup or otherwise….. and the US will prolly do something like charge every ISP outside of America the USA access charge – if they dont pay $20/month for each IP address they want to be able to access American IP ranges…. If an IP tried to access an American IP and isn’t on a ‘paid to access’ list then it’d be blocked by the Gov’t filters into the country…
lol, that’s a worst case but I bet to ’some’ extent I’ll be proven right.
_-Jile-_