In our G2 section today, comedian Marcus Brigstoke points out what's disturbing him about the BBC's free giveaway of every Beethoven symphony.
The problem's a simple one - that it's free.
"It's free, it's music, I love music - so why am I reluctant to slip it in to my iTunes folder? It's something deep and mysterious in the human psyche, like putting stuff in a skip, then being annoyed if someone takes it. It doesn't make any sense, and yet I still haven't hit the download key. It's not like it's free porn, you know, rigged with some mucky virus that makes pictures of donkeys and German women pop up on the screen every time you log on. Not from the BBC. I mean, I read in the Daily Mail how standards have slipped, but I can't see Radio 3 hiding titty-pics in a Beethoven file."
