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I think this would have been a closer analogue to Louis C.K.'s experiment if the songs had not been available for download without payment. This is just busking

by seldo 15y ago

I think this would have been a closer analogue to Louis C.K.'s experiment if the songs had not been available for download without payment. This is just busking -- playing the music whether or not people pay, but hoping they do. Obviously, Louis C.K. could require payment first because people had some expectation of the quality of his content already, and that won't work for an unknown musician. That doesn't mean this is a bad idea, but it's not really the same idea.

dools 15y ago
This is absolutely like busking! It was the similarity between what Louis was doing and what buskers do that really reminded me of this idea - and it's one that's not even very new. It was written by Robert Woodhead on selfpromotion.com as "Virtual Tipping"[1] in 2000. That's where I first read about it - and I'd talked to my Dad about it before but never knew how to tackle the whole distribution thing. Seeing Louis do this so simply just made me think "fuck it, let's go". [1]http://tipping.selfpromotion.com/ http://tipping.selfpromotion.com/