The BEN network

At first I thought BEN was one of those god channels, trying to be a general entertainment channel on SKY, but now, apparently it's also the BitTorrent Entertainment Network (you see BEN).

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Promoting the Beeb on You Tube

Well we've known it was coming for a while but now the BBC have formerly announced a partnership with You Tube.

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Eurovision 'Armageddon' in Israel

Isrealis have voted overwhelmingly for a song for Eurovision that makes fun of Irans nuclear plans. It includes lines like "The world is full of terror, if someone makes an error, he's gonna blow us up to kingdom come."

Rip off Britain is back

We've known for a long time that things in the UK are more expensive than in other parts of the world, it's something as British citizens we've grown to live with - well more or less, there are some products we've managed to reduce the price gap on - but not everything.

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I want toys

I've just finished watching a TV show called James May's Top Toys that I'd downloaded to my computer a while back, and it was brilliant. In the documentary the BBC's Top Gear presenter looks back at the toys of his childhood.

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Licence not sue

I've just finished reading a wires story about the RIAA offering a deal to the top file sharing colleges in the USA.

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Swapping torrents for Money

I regularly visit the Final Gear forums, a forum for Top Gear and Fifth Gear fans (that also happens to link to a few torrents).

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Download and support

I was recently reading through one of my favourite forums and there was a thread on download tv shows and whether you would pay for the same show if it was made available on iTunes. This response got me a bit hot under the collar:

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Call to block mobile signals in cars

A man from Jersey, Channel Islands is taking his campaign to stop people using mobiles in cars to a whole new level.

ITV er.. 'Comedy'

There is a great post by Entertainment/Media blogger Anna Pickard on ITV Comedy and the lack there of on the Guardian Blogs site. In the blog posting she ponders the current crop of um... lets call them, for want of a better word 'attempts' at humour from the second network.

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No Top Gear DVDs

The 2|Entertain Managing Director DVD & Video, Stuart Snaith, has said in an e-mail that there is unlikely to ever be full series box sets of Top Gear because the rights on the music is impossible to clear.

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