£3.88 – Average Price Paid For Radiohead’s “In Rainbows”

According to Record Of The Day, who performed an informal survey that they claim received over 5000 submissions, £3.88 was the average price paid for Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” record release. Radiohead’s “pay what you think it’s worth” online retail experiment made the record industry stand up and take notice with their brazen foray into the Do It Yourself retail space. But the real question...

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British & Dutch Authorities Shutter OiNK – Members Only File Sharing Network

After a two-year investigation, British and Dutch police shut down OiNK, a member’s only file-sharing site thatt specialized in pre-release albums. An estimated 180,000 members paid a membership donation via debit or credit cards for OiNK’s catalog of music and other media. Prerelease leaks have become one of the most damaging forms of piracy for the music industry, which relies on marketing hype to create demand for new...

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