Louis C.K. returns to “Parks & Recreation” next week!
Yes. and Yes.
(Source: maiscomedia-menosdrama)
Louis CK’s PayPal screen, and what he’s going with the money. To quote @mulegirl: “Attention social media strategists and marketers. This is what authenticity looks like. You can’t fake it.”
After he breaks it all down he tells us what he’ll do with his remaining share:
“That leaves me with 220k for myself. Some of that will pay my rent and will care for my children. The rest I will do terrible, horrible things with and none of that is any of your business. In any case, to me, 220k is enough out of a million.”
This man.
“The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again.
I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but at this point I think we can safely say that the experiment really worked. If anybody stole it, it wasn’t many of you. Pretty much everybody bought it. And so now we all get to know that about people and stuff. I’m really glad I put this out here this way and I’ll certainly do it again.
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Comedian and actor LOUIS C.K., on his successful online experiment selling copies of his latest special without a distributor.
(via inothernews)
I got my Louis CK email this morning. What a guy. He was the perfect person to make a positive effort for DRM-free, for the people, quick and easy, content distribution.
And he deserves the success from it.
(Source: buy.louisck.net)
Louis CK | Live at the Beacon Theater
Arguably the best current comedian, Louis CK is offering his newest special for a $5 download. No DRM, no restrictions.
Buy it.
I am most certainly going to be buying this sometime today.
Support, support Louis C.K.
He really is a cool guy. I heard him explain his plan to distribute this special on Conan. He is doing things to the way comedy and content are distributed. Just look at Louie. He gets so much creative control because he was willing to take a pay cut.
Finally! Someone to try something creative and shake things up. All in the name of sex/masturbation/racial/overweight humor.
