Recently the BBC announced it would put all of its archives online, available free over the internet. The initiative, “if successful, could enable viewers to download some of the 1.5 million TV programmes and 750,000 radio shows hitherto buried in the BBC archive. To enable viewers to download their favourite programmes, both archive and current, the BBC is developing a new internet media player or IMP.” But, predictably, there are numerous issues to be worked out. And the likelihood of getting all the BBC’s shows online isn’t likely…