bbc-ed creatived, archived..

The newly announced BBC Creative Archive, making their programming available digitally and for free, sounds just amazing. Danny O'Brien has some interesting comments about it.

It'd be amazing to see the Creative Archive as easy and free as the Internet Archive Moving Image Collection is, in terms of download formats and options - though, as Danny and others rightly point out, getting the bandwidth sorted out to give away popular material can be very tricky.

But, and I'm rapidly turning into a rabid advocate - BitTorrent, I heart you. We posted a Slashdot story about the Matrix Revolutions trailer last week, and _eviscerated_ the official Matrix website, but the Torrent link was still letting everyone leech at a good rate, even with 1600 clients on-board. Best thing since sliced bread, I tell you...