![]() BitTorrent’s trying to go mainstream, and Yorke could be just the mouthpiece it needs. To access Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, you have to be a BitTorrent client, and this announcement will no doubt get those unfamiliar with the site involved. ![]() The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or ‘cloud’ malarkey. If it works, anyone can do this exactly as we have done. If it works well, it could be an effective way of handing some control of Internet commerce back to the 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 gatekeepers. In a statement from Yorke and longtime producer Nigel Goodrich, this BitTorrent approach is described as an “experiment,” much like Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want approach for In Rainbows: More specifically, the eight-song LP, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, will be distributed via BitTorrent Bundle, and is being touted as the first “paygated” torrent ever. ![]() ![]() Today, we finally got something to sink our teeth into: His new solo album -the first in eight years -will be released exclusively via BitTorrent. Earlier this week, Thom Yorke sent fans into a frenzy when he tweeted a mysterious photo of a record. ![]()
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