Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days

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Post by basiliskus » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 3:42 AM UTC

Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days
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Post by daeken » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 3:56 AM UTC

Wow. I expected positive results, but not that fast. Is there any precedent for this sort of thing? Hell, did Radiohead or Trent Reznor release sales statistics when they tried schemes like this for CDs? I'd love to see the numbers if so.

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Post by epikur » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 3:58 AM UTC

Chrome warns of an SSL error when I try to visit his site, and when I click proceed, I see an OpenDNS page about nameservers failing.

And yet, isup.me says it's up. Interesting.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 3:59 AM UTC

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Post by simcop2387 » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 4:00 AM UTC

epikur wrote: post #3

Chrome warns of an SSL error when I try to visit his site, and when I click proceed, I see an OpenDNS page about nameservers failing. And yet, isup.me says it's up. Interesting.

I'm not having any problems myself, but here's the output from dig for it.

  louisck.net.            14400   IN      A       75.119.221.139

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Post by dangrossman » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 4:00 AM UTC

epikur wrote: post #3

Chrome warns of an SSL error when I try to visit his site, and when I click proceed, I see an OpenDNS page about nameservers failing. And yet, isup.me says it's up. Interesting.

I got that for a while yesterday. The site probably changed nameservers and IPs, and your/your ISP's cache hasn't expired yet.

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Post by enneff » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 4:00 AM UTC

epikur wrote: post #3

Chrome warns of an SSL error when I try to visit his site, and when I click proceed, I see an OpenDNS page about nameservers failing. And yet, isup.me says it's up. Interesting.

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

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Post by syeren » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 4:01 AM UTC

Although I'm really happy for him doing this, and it working out so well; Trent Reznor / Radiohead did this exact thing years ago and made millions from it, so I'm confused as to why this got such large publicity.

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Post by staunch » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 4:02 AM UTC

I wonder if he would have made more if he had let users choose the price.

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Post by samdjohnson » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 4:03 AM UTC

syeren wrote: post #8

Although I'm really happy for him doing this, and it working out so well; Trent Reznor / Radiohead did this exact thing years ago and made millions from it, so I'm confused as to why this got such large publicity.

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