Editing Essential Mix (section)

==New technologies==
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The advent of the [[internet]] brought the programme to an international audience for the first time (the [[BBC Radio 1]] website launched in 1996).{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} In 2002, the [[BBC]] launched their 'listen again' online [[radio]] service and the ''Essential Mix'' (along with the [[Essential Selection]]) and became consistently the most popular specialist music show of the whole [[BBC Radio]] network among [[internet users]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}}

According to BBC server logs,{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} the show receives around 50,000 online requests per week (though this can be significantly higher, with the 2003 [[Ibiza]] show attracting more than 96,000 requests), which compares to the show's "live" audience of 80,000.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} Whilst demand for a [[podcast]] of the show is high, the BBC has resisted making the show available in this way due to [[copyright]] issues, but the development of [[peer-to-peer]] internet technologies has spawned a new trend in which fans of the show make recordings of mixes available to users of services such as [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]] and [[eMule]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} Although illegal{{where|date=October 2014}}, the BBC has taken little action against such activity.{{original research inline |date=December 2010}}

Many [[BitTorrent|torrent sites]] and internet forums still continue to provide [[MP3]] [[download]] links to past shows, which can be found easily through internet search engines.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}}