Downloading illegal music is a huge issue in most families with teenagers. UK rock band Radiohead has a solution: Give the music away. They have circumvented normal conventions and made their most recent album, Rainbows, available for download on the Internet--and the consumer sets the price!
Check out their website at http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/ItsUptoYou.html
Technology writer Steven Levy discusses the potential future effects of this phenomenon in the October 29, 2007, issue of Newsweek.
Check out their website at http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/ItsUptoYou.html
Technology writer Steven Levy discusses the potential future effects of this phenomenon in the October 29, 2007, issue of Newsweek.
1 comment:
Interesting idea. It would be fun to find out how well it works for them. Will people pay them as much as they would have made otherwise??
I looked at the site and couldn't see this process explained, and there could be a transaction fee. Wonder what that would be and how someone would know about how the payment worked (maybe you find that out when you go to buy the item).
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