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It works fine here. Why use OpenDNS? They mess with your DNS results. Instead, try 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html
Google DNS makes for a suboptimal Netflix CDN load-balancing experience. :(
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More valuable than the long tail is that he probably has an email list of ~20,000 people -- and more by the hour -- who have demonstrated interest in paying money for Louis C.K. comedy specials. I trust I don't need to tell you what to do with that if you're the exclusive producer of Louis C.K. comedy specials.
I'm curious where you're getting the 20k figure from. He mentions only that he's sold over 110k copies, but not what percentage of people opted in to the mail list.
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Disagree. I've never bought a comedy DVD in my life, because frankly, an hour of humor isn't worth $15 + the overhead of receiving a package and storing a physical artifact in perpetuity. But $5, I can have it in seconds, and forget about it until I want it again? Different story entirely. So I bought it. I don't think I did it because it was an experiment - if every comedian released stuff like this, I feel like I'd…
You're proving my entire point. You bought this because it's an experiment, you wanted to validate the experiment.
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I'm curious where you're getting the 20k figure from. He mentions only that he's sold over 110k copies, but not what percentage of people opted in to the mail list.
Its a guesstimate based on what clients of mine or I get for opt-in in similar situations, with a discount based on his customer population disproportionately being Redditors or demographically similar to them. I figured "Meh, 20% sounds about right."
I really hope people don't turn this into a "Louis CK did it, so you should publish without DRM!". I agree with the anti-drm sentiment a lot of people hold, but this experiment only worked because it's "rare". Every time something like this is done people use it as evidence of the viability of the idea (Radiohead's pay what you want comes to mind too) and that really shouldn't be done. The only reason I heard about t…
I said the same thing about the humble indie bundle, but they seem to be doing really well still!
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You're proving my entire point. You bought this because it's an experiment, you wanted to validate the experiment.
Of course this is personal analysis of my own motivations and thus hardly scientific, but yeah, my whole point was that I think I would buy this even if it wasn't an experiment. I didn't buy Trent Reznor or Radiohead's experiments because I don't like their music, but I did want to see this show, so I bought it.
Can anyone comment on the $170,000 cost to produce the video? He says he edited it himself so that pricetag must cover only the recording side of it. Is this cost a reflection of the price that large studios normally pay, or would he have gotten this rate from a smaller shop as well?
Can anyone comment on the $170,000 cost to produce the video? He says he edited it himself so that pricetag must cover only the recording side of it. Is this cost a reflection of the price that large studios normally pay, or would he have gotten this rate from a smaller shop as well?
I'm sure it adds up quick.