December 2011
44 posts
The Dark Knight Rises Trailer →
trailers.apple.com
I am very excited by this!
"Laputa: Castle In The Sky" Breaks Tweets Per Second Record →
thenextweb.com
This makes me so happy. Laputa was my favourite movie growing up and now it has impacted one of my favourite pieces of modern tech.
“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.”
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A Statement From Louis CK on the success of distributing his latest comedy special online for $5.
Good job, internet.
(via ryeisenberg)
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