![]() "The network not only carries the traffic, it also hosts the file. ![]() "It's an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around.If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work. Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves. Bypassing the self elected gate-keepers. If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done. The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or 'cloud' malarkey. It's a self-contained embeddable shop front. Radiohead are no strangers to BitTorrent after the well-documented pay-what-you-like In Rainbows album unofficially racked up many thousands of downloads using the protocol. Apparently they are well aware of the latest developments in the BitTorrent community, as they used the newly. Videos, music, artwork, websites, merchandise, and assorted ephemeral. ![]() "As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record. The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files. The files can be anything, but in this case is an 'album'. Radiohead uploaded the torrent the old fashioned way though, seeding it themselves. An official online resource containing everything we, Radiohead, have ever done, more or less. In a statement on their website, Yorke has explained the album as an experiment.
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