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Thom Yorke releases album on BitTorrent

I thought BitTorrent was a sleazy pirate site that would infect my computer with popups if I clicked on it. Now I see that Thom Yorke used it for the release of his latest album on Friday. The album costs $6 to download, and Yorke gets 90 percent of the proceeds. By Friday afternoon there were 60,000 downloads, according to the NY Times.
Elsewhere in the Times is a lengthy article about everyone's favorite pop band, the Berlin Philharmonic, which streams its concerts to paying subscribers with its Digital Concert Hall Program. Despite investments by Deutsche Bank and Sony and 450,000 registered users, apparently that program is not yet "financially self-sustaining". Not surprising to me -- the BPO is essentially paying for its own private, exclusive TV station. They need to share the overhead and bring in other performing arts content, which need not be limited to other orchestras, imo.
Interesting times!


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Topic - Thom Yorke releases album on BitTorrent - rbolaw 19:23:26 09/28/14 (12)

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