23/06/2005

Reasons for BitTorrent #1...

entry posted by Inquisitor at 19:32 (permalink).
categories: Funny , Misc

I've just obtained another huge cache of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue MP3s. Some kind souls have dubbed their entire radio-tape collections into MP3 format going right back to episode one, and posted them on the ukn*** torrent site; meaning that I have hour after hour of Humph and co available at my disposal. And it's really good to have, too - there's nothing better than having an instant laugh available at a hit of the RANDOM key. Courtesy of the various torrents, I'm not missing that many ISIHACs - and mostly early ones, I'm complete from 1996 onwards - and 32kbit MP3, which most of them are in, is still very listenable for speech radio.

Not much of this will ever be released on tape or CD - there's seven whole days of it - and BBC7 won't repeat everything. So torrents like these provide a sort of public service - preserving the programme's memory. Besides, this form of sharing isn't new at all - tape traders have been doing it since the invention of the cassette recorder, and the Internet simply allows the rest of us to get in on the act. Plus there's Just a Minute (right back to the very first episode) and Radio Active and The Mary Whitehouse Experience and much much more unreleased brilliant material out there, and that's not even counting the archive TV... Some torrent sites are about more than porn and warez, you know, and it's all the better for it.

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