Celebrate a Decade of the Doctor with the Doctor Who BitTorrent Bundle

The BBC has just made the groundbreaking decision to release Doctor Who on BitTorrent as a legal download. This is fantastic news for fans worldwide and will hopefully pave the way for more legal BBC content via BitTorrent in the future.
In fact, this is surely a win for everybody involved.

BitTorrent Wins

While BitTorrent is commonly known for the illegal content available to download, it is trying to legitimize itself by offering legal bundles, both paid and unpaid. The addition of legal BBC content to the paid BitTorrent bundles is an incredible boon for them, as more people will become aware of the legal content available via torrents.

Doctor Who Fans Win

There are Doctor Who fans located all around the world, and many of them do not have access to timely TV broadcasts of their favorite show. By putting the content on BitTorrent, any fan with Internet access will be able to pay a small fee and download the whole bundle… legally.

People downloading the Doctor Who bundle also have the pleasure of knowing the money is going back to the BBC for the purpose of making more great content, and that the files they’ve downloaded will be of high quality. This cannot be said of other ways of watching BBC content, including the illegal methods of obtaining Doctor Who, such as paying for a VPN so you can use iPlayer (bypassing the georestrictions), and torrenting illegal files of the show.

It’s also much easier for Doctor Who fans to get the content they want, in a format they want, ready for storing on their media server and watching via XBMC (now Kodi), Plex or something similar. With many Doctor Who fans being young, tech-savvy types, this is important.

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