Saturday, September 27, 2014
Thom Yorke is the first artist to use BitTorrent's new paywall feature
Thom Yorke is the first artist to use BitTorrent's new paywall feature Thom Yorke has sympathized with fans who pirate his music in the past, and now the Radiohead frontman is taking advantage of those pirates' favorite tool: torrenting.The artist's latest solo album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, is the first BitTorrent Bundle that will be partially locked behind a paywall.Yorke, whose first name is definitely pronounced "Tom" despite how it looks, said in an announcement that the album release is "an experiment."He and producer Nigel Godrich want to see if the Yorke-loving music populace "can get its head around" the new business model. Read more >