Somewhat related, I think his site has my favorite 'forgot my password' email ever. Apparently you forgot your password? Ok, so here's your new one, stupid: EMAIL: xxxxx@gmail.com PASSWORD: moron.xxxxx
mine was numbnuts.xxxx
Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
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Re: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
#22Here's a thing on conversion: I'm going to be offering other things through this site. Would you like to hear about them? Yes, I'd like to receive further emails about Louis C.K. things. No, leave me alone forever, you fat idiot. No was checked by default , and the phrasing says "Hello, I am a human." I clicked yes.
Lol - I bought the first video, and now one of the audios. However, at the end of the process I didn't remember my old password. So I clicked 'I forgot my password' and it said 'Oh my god, you're an idiot' and sent me an email with a new one - a random password beginning with the letters 'idiot' :-D Love the humour.
Re: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
#23Here's a thing on conversion: I'm going to be offering other things through this site. Would you like to hear about them? Yes, I'd like to receive further emails about Louis C.K. things. No, leave me alone forever, you fat idiot. No was checked by default , and the phrasing says "Hello, I am a human." I clicked yes.
Lol - I bought the first video, and now one of the audios. However, at the end of the process I didn't remember my old password. So I clicked 'I forgot my password' and it said 'Oh my god, you're an idiot' and sent me an email with a new one - a random password beginning with the letters 'idiot' :-D Love the humour.
Oh, and I can download the audio version of the video I bought for free - nice :-)
Re: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
#24Here's a thing on conversion: I'm going to be offering other things through this site. Would you like to hear about them? Yes, I'd like to receive further emails about Louis C.K. things. No, leave me alone forever, you fat idiot. No was checked by default , and the phrasing says "Hello, I am a human." I clicked yes.
Lol - I bought the first video, and now one of the audios. However, at the end of the process I didn't remember my old password. So I clicked 'I forgot my password' and it said 'Oh my god, you're an idiot' and sent me an email with a new one - a random password beginning with the letters 'idiot' :-D Love the humour.
I forgot my password as well, it started with 'moron'. :(
Re: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
#25I just bought both. You'll get 4 downloads for each show and can download MP3 and/or FLAC. Quality seems pretty good to me, but I'm not an audiophile.
"You get 4 downloads"
Why limit it? It seems totally against the point. Why not even let people download a torrent and they can get the video on as many devices as they please and it wont even stress his servers.
Re: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
#26What's more interesting is that he got HBO to release their content in a DRM-free format. (HBO is the network that previously wouldn't let you buy their online video service unless you already had cable and an HBO subscription, rather defeating the purpose of buying the content online.) This is what fighting piracy looks like.
Plenty of HBO content is sold a la carte online. But HBO itself is cross-subsidized from cable subscriptions. Their online service is not intended to replace their TV channel, but just augment it.
Re: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
#27I bought Shameless since Louis CK is awesome, and also because his advisors wanted him to put DRM and other crap on the shows and he refused.
Totally worth the money.
Re: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
#28I just bought both. You'll get 4 downloads for each show and can download MP3 and/or FLAC. Quality seems pretty good to me, but I'm not an audiophile.
"You get 4 downloads" Why limit it? It seems totally against the point. Why not even let people download a torrent and they can get the video on as many devices as they please and it wont even stress his servers.
Distributing by torrent is different from providing a quality download service with purchase. If someone really wants to download by torrent and wait then what's stopping them from paying and then doing that.
Limiting number of downloads protects their bandwidth from would be jerks. Protecting their service is important for their customers to have a quality experience. It's fair, and most people will only ever download once. If they for some reason use up all 4 downloads and want more they should e-mail them. Why wouldn't give more if some had a genuinely good reason for using up their downloads?
Re: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
"You get 4 downloads" Why limit it? It seems totally against the point. Why not even let people download a torrent and they can get the video on as many devices as they please and it wont even stress his servers.
Distributing by torrent is different from providing a quality download service with purchase. If someone really wants to download by torrent and wait then what's stopping them from paying and then doing that. Limiting number of downloads protects their bandwidth from would be jerks. Protecting their service is important for their customers to have a quality experience. It's fair, and most people will only ever downlo…
I could see myself using that up legitimately over the course of my life. Now, of course, you could argue that the servers aren't expected to be up that long, but even over the next 5 years I could see myself doing that:
I have a work computer and a home computer. I download them on both. My home computer fucks up and I have to reformat, so I re-download it (I forgot to back up this particular performance). I'm at a friend's house and I want to play a sample for him (which he later buys). Now I'm up to my four, and they were all legitimate uses.
They should pad it enough that someone who paid for it could download it liberally (~20) but mass distribution of the link (100+) would fail quickly. And hell, he could even send an email to the owner if the link started receiving a ton of traffic.
Re: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
#30What's more interesting is that he got HBO to release their content in a DRM-free format. (HBO is the network that previously wouldn't let you buy their online video service unless you already had cable and an HBO subscription, rather defeating the purpose of buying the content online.) This is what fighting piracy looks like.
"Previously"? Did anything recently change with HBO? (Dear suits: please let me give you money.)