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I just purchased it. That was simple as possible (enter e-mail in box, redirected to PayPal, redirected to page with stream and download buttons). There's a str
by dangrossman 15y ago
I just purchased it. That was simple as possible (enter e-mail in box, redirected to PayPal, redirected to page with stream and download buttons). There's a streaming limit (3 views) and download limit (5 downloads).
The download is hosted on Amazon S3 where I'm barely getting 500k/s. The stream and download limits would then limit his delivery costs to ~$1.50 per customer with S3's bandwidth pricing. PayPal is taking out $0.41. He could be getting as little as $3 of each $5 for the special.
- mikecane 15y ago>>>redirected to PayPal Which allowed you to buy it -- for now. See, there's a weak link in that chain. Just two weeks ago there was a huge uproar over PayPal rejecting payments for books they unilaterally and unjustifiably deemed "offensive." And they can do that to any comedian too.
- dangrossman 15y agoSo can any payment processor, direct or third party. Right up to the top, with Visa and MasterCard declining to process for Wikileaks. Your point?
- notatoad 15y agoi think the point is that paypal is much more likely to cut you off (or even run away with your money) than visa or mastercard is.
- mikecane 15y agoWikileaks is not content. That's more political than anything else, with the Patriot Act used to threaten the processors.
- DrCatbox 15y agoSounds like a good idea, lets stop all transactions going to any organization that might have political goals.
- jspaur 15y agoworst case on pricing with S3 is $0.125/GB which is about $0.15 per download (or if you download all 5 times, $.70). The costs are actually decent here.