Some people use torrent out of habit. I can imagine person thinkings “hm, they got this out on their site but it’s going to be faster from my favorite tracker” easily.

>People downloading from the torrents don’t even have the option to pay if they want.

They could put it on torrents with whatever description and links.

That’s the point.

Reading my article I wasn’t too coherent, but my point was:

Bittorent services are faster and easier then the radiohead website, unless you where going to pay for the album there was no point downloading from the official site.

Also I think one dodgy thing about it all that Radiohead did was not making it clear how they where releasing the whole thing. Some people paid a lot for a crappy download when it was being released in cd form anyway.

The best solution I think is a free 192kbs download. Paid 256kbs + potential discount on the hard copy album when its released.

However one thing people seem to forget is that NO band has become as big as Radiohead or NiN without a music label to begin with. Theyre not ALL bad.

I downloaded it. I’m a Radiohead fan. Have been for years. After years of filling their coffers, it was a good thing.

also, best of all, this was a great word of mouth PR stunt for radiohead — something which is not quantifiable in a direct manner.

I remember hearing sales for the album were pretty high regardless of the free online release, which says something.