Jason Scott’s blog post from a few weeks ago, Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse, has kicked up a bit of dust. His argument (see also his follow-up post) is that services for hosting user-generated content need to take more seriously the consequences of shutting off those services. He argues that shutting down a hosted service [...]
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The Radiohead experiment: factors to consider in pricing
Via Truth Happens, I saw this morning that the average price paid to download Radiohead’s “choose your own price” album, In Rainbows, was about £2.90, or about $6 U.S. In fact, only 40% of downloaders paid anything at all.
The Guardian story frames this as basically a loss for the band or the industry — perhaps [...]
