The BBC to Start Offering Programs For Download!

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. A fascinating link here from Cameron ...

While the American MPAA continues along its incredibly wrong headed and destined to fail miserably campaign to stomp out file sharing and the downloading of films and television shows at least one major global broadcaster is showing that they actually get it when it comes to the potential of the internet.

In a typically low-key announcement the BBC has announced that starting with the coming season they will start making certain BBC3 comedies available for download off of their website. And we're not talking about throwing a late bone to people here, either ... the first show to be offered up will be the upcoming second series of The Mighty Boosh, one of their best received shows last season, with the first episode being made available online a full week before broadcasting over the traditional network with subsequent episodes offered weekly and the entire series being kept available until the week following the broadcast of the final episode. They don't name any other titles but they do say that this will be the first of a number of shows to be made available online ... Extras, perhaps? Funland? Please?

There is no mention whatsoever of whether this will be a free or pay service but, frankly, if the quality is high and prices are reasonable I'd be more than happy to pay a small fee if they choose to go that route. Who needs TiVo? This rules.

All the info is here.