"But when you're a bunch of pricks, people go to The Pirate Bay and think of you as the enemy, and then you don't get any money. Take notes, you idiots."
v. funny indeed
I guess this was a good way for Python to reach new and younger audiences that haven't seen their magic before.<p>On a side note I'm somewhat surprised to see gizmodo actually call the MPAA and RIAA "a bunch of pricks". Not that it isn't true.
I wish people wouldn't say 23,000% when it would be more comprehensible to say 230 x. It's a bit like those submissions to other news sites where they would say 23,000.00% to make the number look <i>even</i> bigger.<p>/hobby horse
just like everything in life, this will only pay off for the first few. Right now people are willing to pay to reward the artists who are willing to tell the RIAA/MPAA to piss off...but once everyone starts doing it, it'll revert to just the natural sales to the fans etc.
I don't know if many people realise it, but the use of the term 'spam' came from a Monty Python sketch originally. It's not too difficult to correlate what they meant: You can have whatever you want, as long as it's with spam.
Y'know, Monty Python is special, people love them, and their pitch asks for support. Not everyone who gave up their goods in HQ would see a 230x improvement in sales. So this isn't a good test of the 'give it all away' idea.
When I first scanned this headline I thought it was something about a storefront running on Python selling a whole lot of movies.<p>But, hey, Monty Python > Python.