The BBC is set to offer episodes of it hit shows such as Red Dwarf, Doctor Who and Little Britain via the Azureus peer-to-peer network.
However, license fee payers should not get excited, they will not be offered this service (unless they want to pay on top of their £130 premium) for the new service will be chargeable and the video files will be crippled with DRM.
This service is apparently being aimed at the US market. So, the folks in the states can, for a fee, access digital (albeit crippled) video on demand from the British Broadcasting Corporation. Mean while, the folks in Britain, for a large fee (mandatory if you own a TV) can access the usual muck which is piped over the barely-adequate DVB system and only dream about downloading and watching their favorite shows of yesteryear*
*That is unless they download ‘illegal’ non-crippled copies of said shows via torrents.
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