Was the New Dr. Who Leaked on Purpose? 370
Static-MT writes "The pilot episode of the BBC's highly anticipated new Doctor Who series may have been intentionally leaked onto file-sharing networks to generate buzz, a source who instructed the network on viral advertising told Wired News."
In some jurisdictions in the world... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Perfect copy (Score:1, Informative)
Well... (Score:3, Informative)
I've watched it, and some of the commercials, and think I will really like the new series.
Find a torrent of the current BBC commercials if you don't want to download, or didn't like, the leaked episode. It really does make things look interesting. (www.demonoid.com has a few versions of it, all high quality)
Re:Worked for me (Score:3, Informative)
In Canada... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Too bad it sucked... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Worked for me (Score:5, Informative)
Hmm, the page I got that from had an interesting breakdown of how they spent it:
* BBC One £3.37
* BBC Two £1.45
* Digital television channels £0.98
* Transmission and collection costs £0.98
* BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and Five Live £0.99
* Digital radio stations £0.08
* Nations & English Regions television £0.90
* Local radio £0.61
* bbc.co.uk £0.31
Total £9.67
For those not familiar with their work:
BBC one is the mainstream TV channel. This is where Dr. Who would be found. One is a difficult channel for the BBC since they have to work out how much it should compete with commercial TV.
BBC two is for less popular TV stuff. Often programs start on two, gain a following, and transfer to one.
Digital TV - they repeat one and two, and add three (more entertainment), four (more factual), two kids channels, a 24 hour news channel, and a channel showing what parliament is doing. the key on is three, which basically the Govt. forces them to do in order to encourage people to go digital (e.g. they show new series here first) so that it will be easy to turn off the analogue one day.
The national radio stations: one is new popular music; two is non-new popular music, comedy, other music genres; three is classical; four is speech; five is sport and news.
Digital radio is as digital TV; they rebroadcast and add some more channels. Seven is absolutely brilliant as they play their back catalogue of incredible radio stuff.
Regional TV is mostly news, although some of the larger regions make their own stuff. Northern Ireland and Wales especially.
Local Radio is mostly awful except for London and the odd show.
All the radio can be heard on their web page, with most shows available for a week after their original transmission. This alone nearly justifies the license fee for me!
Re:So whats wrong with this? (Score:4, Informative)
Know your roots (Score:5, Informative)
Specifically, it's from the The Corbomite Maneuver [gateworld.net] episode.
Chip H.
Legally a BAD move! (Score:5, Informative)
Great, if true, because they can't prosecute anyone for doing what they themselves did. It's "equitable estoppel" ... A type of estoppel that bars a person from adopting a position in court that contradicts his or her past statements or actions when that contradictory stance would be unfair to another person who relied on the original position. For example, if a landlord agrees to allow a tenant to pay the rent ten days late for six months, it would be unfair to allow the landlord to bring a court action in the fourth month to evict the tenant for being a week late with the rent. The landlord would be estopped from asserting his right to evict the tenant for late payment of rent. Also known as estoppel in pais.
Re:Worked for me (Score:1, Informative)
I'm an expat, so I hate commercials. Plus there's loads of stuff that they don't show you on BBC America.
Torrent link (Score:3, Informative)
Re:So whats wrong with this? (Score:1, Informative)
I think that statement is a little misleading. The BBC gets its funding from a yearly television tax, not the governmnet itself.
This allows the BBC to be mostly free from governmnet interference and has helped the BBC become arguably the best world news organization, if not the best media company there is.
Re:Too bad it sucked... (Score:3, Informative)
I only know the Tom Baker episodes, but I seem to recall The Doctor having to save an assistant at least once every story. Specific examples...
Talons of Weng-Chiang:
Doctor saves Leela from bad guy sucking away her life energy.
Seeds of Doom:
Doctor saves Sarah Jane from being forceably transformed into plant monster.
The Sontaran Experiment:
Doctor saves Sarah Jane from experiments performed by alien.
Which Doctor are you familiar with who never once ends up saving the life of one of his female companions?
Re:So whats wrong with this? (Score:1, Informative)