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In one of the first comprehensive looks at who paid what for Radiohead’s recent In Rainbows launch, comScore says that more than 1.2 million people used the download site in the month of October, and only 38 per cent of them paid anything for the music. In the United States, according to the traffic measuring [...]
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A piece in Forbes notes that more than 500,000 people in the space of a couple of days decided to download the new Radiohead album via BitTorrent, even though they could have downloaded it from Radiohead and paid the same amount, i.e. nothing. Although Eric Garland of Big Champagne — the download-tracking service that provided [...]
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(this is cross-posted from my Globe and Mail blog) When Radiohead’s “pay what you want” download experiment was first announced a couple of weeks ago, it seemed obvious that fans (particularly the poor ones) would like the idea. But would it actually work? And would the band make any money, or would most people download [...]
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Holden: “If the buzz is any indicator, that movie’s gonna make some huge bank.” Jay: “What buzz?” Holden: “The Internet buzz.” Jay: “What the fuck is the Internet?” – from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Apparently, rock dinosaurs Led Zeppelin have decided that the Interweb might actually turn out to be worth something after [...]
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Last week, Radiohead dropped a bomb on the music business by announcing that its entire new album In Rainbows would be available for download from the Internet, and that fans would be able to pay anywhere from zero to whatever they wanted for the music. This was quite rightly viewed by many (including yours truly) [...]
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