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He's not "some guy". He's a very popular stand-up comedian, with a TV show. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_C.K .
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He also shoots and edits his own show (Louie, on FX) using a RED camera and his own laptop. He famously fought for total editorial control of his show (to the betterment of all of us viewers) and now he's not even taking a step back when it comes to distribution. Good for him http://gizmodo.com/5658621/how-louis-ck-shoots-and-edits-his...
His description of why he did it: To those who might wish to "torrent" this video: look, I don't really get the whole "torrent" thing. I don't know enough about it to judge either way. But I'd just like you to consider this: I made this video extremely easy to use against well-informed advice. I was told that it would be easier to torrent the way I made it, but I chose to do it this way anyway, because I want it to b…
In this email purportedly from Louis in 2009, he sternly but politely asks someone to take down their bootleg taping of his routine: http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86011/comedian-louis-ck-asks-mi... >> HI. I’m Louis CK. Can you please take this down? This show is a work in progress and was not intended to be passed around the internet. I have absolutely no problem, personally, with file sharing, and if you take everyth…
Just bought it. While I'm really happy to support DRM free content, I must say I am somewhat disappointed that you can only download it twice. "PLEASE NOTE that you can only stream the film twice AND you can download the film twice. Once you start a stream of the film, your stream will be active for 8 hours. Once you have exceeded your streaming and download limits, you will need to purchase the film again to stream…
I think there's a huge pent-up demand for software that makes it easy for artists to publish their own content on their own websites easily and also makes making and collecting payments as easy as downloading torrents. Probably something like that already exists, but the fact is that most of the content seems to be aggregated in different kinds of services that the artists don't really control themselves.
This is exactly what I'm trying to do with Gumroad: http://gumroad.com (I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback)
I'd LOVE to see more content producers distributing their own content rather than giving money to middlemen. I am not sure if this would also work for people that DON'T have their own TV show but just start doing things. Maybe something akin to "openers" on concerts would work. Bundling less known content in a "pay what you want" basis.
Although I agree, I'm not sure this distribution method scales as is. I just sent Louis 5 bucks, downloaded the video, copied it to a USB drive, and then hooked it up to my Roku. I'm fine doing that ad hoc process occasionally, but if I got most of my media this way it'd get old very fast. Surely there is a better way to distribute this stuff such that it doesn't take away the nice advantages and gives most/all the m…
If the market ever allows for a consumer-level product to achieve this (my solution is very geeky) and it works well, it will be successful.
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> Hopefully this model catches on. If the success of NiN's "Ghosts I-IV" was not sufficient, I doubt that one will be. It's a long walk, uphill, on a 10G planet, of a slope the size of Olympus Mons.
Olympus Mons actually has a low slope (about 5 degrees). It gets to be the tallest volcano in the solar system by being 400 miles wide.
By size I meant length, not angle (and completely forgot to talk about angle on the way). Sorry 'bout that.
'though at 10G planet, 200 miles at 5˚ should be plenty fun to walk.
His description of why he did it: To those who might wish to "torrent" this video: look, I don't really get the whole "torrent" thing. I don't know enough about it to judge either way. But I'd just like you to consider this: I made this video extremely easy to use against well-informed advice. I was told that it would be easier to torrent the way I made it, but I chose to do it this way anyway, because I want it to b…
Wow. His simple tone belies the brilliance in his writing here. I seriously doubt he just spent 5 minutes scribbling this out as an afterthought. He gets a few key ideas across: - he doesn't understand torrenting and so is helpless against it - he cares about his viewers more than taking advice about DRM - the video is owned solely by him and not some soulless corporation, and you're directly hurting him by torrentin…
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How much bandwidth do you think $5 buys?
For amazon cloudfront at the most expensive tier it buys close to 42 GB but then there would be no profit in sending the file 34 times (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file). It makes sense to me why he is only allowing a few downloads otherwise a few extreme users could take up all his money just by streaming.
I confirm that it is a ~1.2GB file (the file is precisely 1,199,666,893 bytes)