{"id":4655,"date":"2014-09-30T07:22:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/09\/30\/radioheads-thom-yorke-releases-new-album-via-bittorrent\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T07:22:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:22:41","slug":"radioheads-thom-yorke-releases-new-album-via-bittorrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/09\/30\/radioheads-thom-yorke-releases-new-album-via-bittorrent\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead&#8217;s Thom Yorke Releases New Album Via BitTorrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/08\/Thom_Yorke.jpg\/220px-Thom_Yorke.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>Radiohead&#8217;s Thom Yorke has released his new solo album &#8220;Tomorrow&#8217;s  Modern Boxes&#8221; via BitTorrent for\u00a0$6. \u00a0Ever since Radiohead released an  album using a &#8220;pay what you want.&#8221; Yorke has experimented with a variety  of ways to release new music. This one he calls &#8220;an experiment to see  if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can  get its head around.&#8221;   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221;  according to today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohead.com\/deadairspace\/tomorrows-modern-boxes\" target=\"_blank\">launch announcement<\/a>.  &#8220;Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind  of digital content to sell it themselves&#8230;\u00a0Bypassing the self elected  gate-keepers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done,&#8221; he  continues. :The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading  or hosting costs or &#8216;cloud&#8217; malarkey.\u00a0It&#8217;s a self-contained embeddable  shop front&#8230;The network not only carries the traffic, it also hosts the  file. The file is in the network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiohead&#8217;s Thom Yorke has released his new solo album &#8220;Tomorrow&#8217;s Modern Boxes&#8221; via BitTorrent for\u00a0$6&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}