Evan Martin ([info]evan) wrote,
@ 2005-08-09 08:11:00
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Jeff has convinced his band to release half of their new album online, complete with Bittorrent-only downloads for the first week.

This would be small news normally, but his band is already commercially successful and well-known. It's pretty rad they're willing to experiment with alternative distribution approaches.


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[info]joshc
2005-08-09 03:30 pm UTC (link)
it is cool, but don't you think it's odd that they're doing the bittorrent mini-release two weeks after the deluxe package is in stores?

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[info]evan
2005-08-09 03:40 pm UTC (link)
I dunno. Why do you think that?

It seems to me like discriminative pricing -- those who can't wait two weeks (or, in general, want the high-quality version) get to pay for the CD; those who can't be bothered to use Bittorrent get to wait an additional week.

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[info]joshc
2005-08-09 03:51 pm UTC (link)
I hadn't thought of the discriminative pricing model.

I guess I was thinking of it in terms of an incentive to buy the whole thing. The half posted on the internet gets you really excited about buying the double CD version. I also would have thought that an advantage might be that they'd be ahead of the people who would post it to the internet without the band's permission.

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It's the whole album, not just half
[info]aieeeeeeee
2005-08-09 04:33 pm UTC (link)
Although I guess it how you define "the album" -- from our view, the album is the 10 songs. It's key that it's not perceived as us halving the album and giving that away, but rather that those who buy the physical copy get something extra.

But I suppose that depends if you're a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty kind of guy....

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[info]xaosenkosmos
2005-08-09 05:27 pm UTC (link)
We've been doing a lot of work on distributing content via BitTorrent at ibiblio. You wouldn't happen to have a contact over there for technial stuff, would you? We'd like to talk with them about the problems they're facing, to see if our stuff would help.

Our content distribution system is Osprey (http://osprey.ibiblio.org; links seems less-than-happy about linewrapping my href right now, sorry), which is making its way towards a 1.0 release. All they'll really need is our permaseed application, optimally with the tracker that's been hacked to only advertize that seed when nobody else has a complete copy.

In fact, it's probably the coolest thing going at ibiblio right now.

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[info]evan
2005-08-09 07:57 pm UTC (link)
see the comment directly above yours for a contact.

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[info]aieeeeeeee
2005-08-09 09:29 pm UTC (link)
try jeff@harveydanger.com

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[info]xaosenkosmos
2005-08-10 12:07 am UTC (link)
Sweet, thanks. I'll drop you an email from work in a minute, and LiveJournal need never be mentioned.

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[info]mart
2005-08-09 06:38 pm UTC (link)

Hmm. I recognise the band name but I can't figure out why. What might I know?

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[info]joshc
2005-08-09 06:45 pm UTC (link)
"flagpole sitta'" from the late 1990s?

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[info]herbie
2005-08-09 07:23 pm UTC (link)
I should mention that this is an absolutely excellent song.

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[info]mart
2005-08-09 07:39 pm UTC (link)

Ahh yes. I think that might be it. Heh.

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[info]bostonsteamer
2005-08-09 10:35 pm UTC (link)
It's cool that you and Jeff are so tight you're on a first name basis!

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