Wake up, media moguls:

[Kiehlroy]

Louis C.K. no-DRM video makes $200K...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57...o-makes-$200k/



https://buy.louisck.net/

Buy One Or Suck The Bag!!!

[Nu Kua]

Hey, what a coincidence. I watch Louis CK for the first time just a few weeks ago. We watched this short series that is part stand-up, part 'real life' skits.
I find him irreverently shocking and hilarious. He's good for when a person has been feeling a little uptight... he'll either loosen you up or disturb you to death! And he's also very honest about being human.

So he's selling his video online, with no copyright restrictions, and it's been a success so far.

Szekely's costs for the operation have included $170,000 to produce the video, $32,000 to build the Web site, PayPal charges, and a week of his own time to edit the video. But over the first four days of sales, the 110,000 copies sold have brought in revenue of more than $500,000.

Here's how Szekely describes the bottom line:

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). ..

[Kiehlroy]

Yeah, he kinda sets the bar really low and really high all at the same time. But it works. Sometimes honesty is the best medicine.

[Kiehlroy]

I think I saw 5 min of his series thing, he's much better in stand up or when just chatting...

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