louis ck

can somebody buy it for me and I'll paypal you the 5 bucks? I don't have a credit card linked to paypal...

  On 12/12/2011 at 12:52 AM, chenGOD said:

can somebody buy it for me and I'll paypal you the 5 bucks? I don't have a credit card linked to paypal...

I can do this, PM me your email addy if you still want it (Louie's site is the one asking for it, for backup login info.)

Been watching through Louie this weekend, it's pretty damn funny... outside of the jokes the dialouges/topics get really interesting in certain scenes

  On 12/12/2011 at 8:03 AM, ghOsty said:

Been watching through Louie this weekend, it's pretty damn funny... outside of the jokes the dialouges/topics get really interesting in certain scenes

The dialogue is what I love about Louie. It seems really honest. The more surreal moments are well-done too. I can always see bits of my thought-processes within his.

Bought it yesterday, can't wait to watch it this evening - all the clips I've seen of his stand up shows have been incredible.

  On 12/12/2011 at 12:52 AM, chenGOD said:

can somebody buy it for me and I'll paypal you the 5 bucks? I don't have a credit card linked to paypal...

i didn't need a credit card, i just used my bank account.

  On 12/12/2011 at 4:34 PM, essines said:

  On 12/12/2011 at 12:52 AM, chenGOD said:

can somebody buy it for me and I'll paypal you the 5 bucks? I don't have a credit card linked to paypal...

i didn't need a credit card, i just used my bank account.

Were you able to pay straight away? Cause for me the only option that shows up is echeck.

usualy the echeck is what i have to do but when i paid for this i was able to immediately download the file. It surprised me cause i usually have to wait like a week or two. try it out. but i'd give you the 5 bucks if i could cause this just needs to be seen.

AMA is go: http://www.reddit.co...his_is_a_thing/

hah, this is insane. 1288 upvotes for saying 'shut up'. i read all his responses in his voice, though.

  On 12/11/2011 at 11:28 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 12/11/2011 at 2:56 PM, hautlle said:

From the gentleman who uploaded the new standup to The Pirate Bay

 

 

cunt if only for playing the 'i have kids to feed' bs for torrenting someone's stand up comedy video, if the guy just said 'look im really self entitled and i feel like you and i shouldn't have to pay for this' it would be a lot more honest

so true. buying it once i get to my place tonight, really looking forward to it.

  louis CK said:

  On 12/12/2011 at 7:20 PM, KY said:

  On 12/11/2011 at 11:28 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 12/11/2011 at 2:56 PM, hautlle said:

From the gentleman who uploaded the new standup to The Pirate Bay

 

 

cunt if only for playing the 'i have kids to feed' bs for torrenting someone's stand up comedy video, if the guy just said 'look im really self entitled and i feel like you and i shouldn't have to pay for this' it would be a lot more honest

so true. buying it once i get to my place tonight, really looking forward to it.

 

Im not going to say yet what it's making. It's so damn interesting though to be doing this. I feel like i have a front seat to a really cool... thing. I don't even know what it is. I think it's really interesting that i brought the price so close to stealing and made the movie so easy to get and made it so clear that it's a human offering it that it sparked a debate about pirating.

to steal from someone and not feel bad, you either have to be a sociopath or view the act differently. One way is to remove "Someone" from the equation. You're not stealing from a person. Big companies do a lot to help people view them as less than human. I heard a speach by Noam Chomsky who said that corporations are like super humans. They cannot be hurt like a human can and they never die. They are not succeptible to scrutiny or accountability. this makes them more profitable. If companies want to enjoy these benifits to some degree they have to live with what else comes with being not human. you miss out on compassion, forgiveness, comraderie, empathy, trust all kinds of shit.

The other thing is I can only do this because I'm an individual and I can decide what my risks are that are acceptable and i can make my own goals for what is success. So I forwent (is that a word?) a lot of conventional routes and tried this. i am risking and there may be a celing to the success, but for me it's okay. i feel like as of this year, I make enough money as a standup my goal now is to bring the cost down for those who buy my stuff. i really mean that. It makes me much happier. Also I did see that there might be a tremendous upswing to this. I was really excited about this material and I though it would be really cool to just put it out there myself witha little electronic hat that only takes fives and just see what happens.

I don't know yet if I'll do it again. It hasn't run it's course. But I AM SO HAPPY I DID IT. Just so fun and it has been massively gratifying to share the positive of it with so many people who have written and expressed their feelings.

The day before I posted the video I went on pirate bay, which i had never visited and i read the guy's thign where he posts letters from media co's and artists and then his nasty and kind of hilariously chest beating responses. I thought "jesus. This guy is a piece of work. I would NEVER tangle assholes with this guy." and then I thought about it. What do I say to these people? To hope they don't make me regret putting it out there naked like this? So I wrote that little "to torrent" letter, just being a guy saying "dude. please?" it's the best I can do. If it doesn't work, well.

so anyway, seeing the people who have fought about it on pirate bay and that there is a crisis of concious and everythign that's been written and to see that i've gotten paid. Just so interesting and hope-giving an dcool .

Did someone hack his website? It doesn't work for me, and get's blocked as a potential virus threat.

"when it comes to protecting my daughter you better believe I'm sucking that dick!"

best five dollars I've ever spent!

I love that he listens to chomsky.

If he's smart what he'll do is offer up a little pack of some of his previous DVDs for download...maybe 2 of his previous DVDs for like 5 bucks or 7 bucks.

what's smart about this ? everyone who is a fan has already seen them, what will drive people to buy those ?

  On 12/12/2011 at 7:22 PM, kaini said:

Im not going to say yet what it's making. It's so damn interesting though to be doing this. I feel like i have a front seat to a really cool... thing. I don't even know what it is. I think it's really interesting that i brought the price so close to stealing and made the movie so easy to get and made it so clear that it's a human offering it that it sparked a debate about pirating.

to steal from someone and not feel bad, you either have to be a sociopath or view the act differently.

I'm glad louie said it and not I, because he hits the nail on the head here. Especially people who seem to have an equal non compassion point of view when stealing from an independent artist as opposed to a faceless corporation. As louie points out it's extremely understandable why a faceless corporation would have so many people stealing from them and not give a shit.

then there is a different class of person, the digital hoarder, the one who brags openly about never paying for any of the music they listen to. These people are especially bizarre to me because they seem to take pride in an act that directly impacts what they enjoy listening to. I feel like it's not the same as but similar to the mental illness that causes a kleptomaniac to brag to his or her friends about shoplifting, where for them it's about the rush of stealing rather than enjoying the item they stole.

  On 12/12/2011 at 9:56 PM, eugene said:

what's smart about this ? everyone who is a fan has already seen them, what will drive people to buy those ?

i've seen them all like a dozen times and i'd still buy em.

reddit:

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First of all, your comedy depends on a very bleak cynicism a lot of the time, and I wonder, do you ever struggle to reconcile this with the overwhelming popularity you've experienced in recent years? Do you still believe real life doesn't have happy endings?

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Oh does it? Does it depend on that? I love how you toss that off like it's just the truth. You know what my comedy depends on? My comedy depends on you shutting the fuck up.

I don't know what a happy ending is. If something is happy, then the ending must be sad, because it stopped the happy thing. the only time an end is happy is if the thing it ended was bad

goddammit i love this man.

  On 12/12/2011 at 11:43 PM, kaini said:

reddit:

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First of all, your comedy depends on a very bleak cynicism a lot of the time, and I wonder, do you ever struggle to reconcile this with the overwhelming popularity you've experienced in recent years? Do you still believe real life doesn't have happy endings?

 

louis:

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Oh does it? Does it depend on that? I love how you toss that off like it's just the truth. You know what my comedy depends on? My comedy depends on you shutting the fuck up.

I don't know what a happy ending is. If something is happy, then the ending must be sad, because it stopped the happy thing. the only time an end is happy is if the thing it ended was bad

 

goddammit i love this man.

i can't believe you left his bit out of the quote

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anyway nothing ends. Thompsons theory of the conservation of your mother's dirty tits: Your mother's dirty tits are not created or destroyed. they are just rearranged into some other asshole's mother's dirty tits.

  On 12/12/2011 at 9:56 PM, eugene said:

what's smart about this ? everyone who is a fan has already seen them, what will drive people to buy those ?

because new fans who will seek out his back catalogue will have an easy way to purchase them? Or do you think a performer's fan base remains stagnant forever?

old fans who might have seen them, but not purchased the DVD, or who had lost the DVDs might feel you know "this guy makes his living off performing" and thus will wish to provide compensation for having enjoyed his performance. Not everyone is a cheap asshole with a sense of entitlement you know.

Also in terms of return on investment it's a fucking no-brainer. Hosting is ridiculously cheap, encoding is cheap. He sells like 5 of them he's made his investment back and everything else is fucking gravy.

he probably can't sell the old DVD by himself like this.

depends on his licensing. but yeah that's a point.

  On 12/13/2011 at 12:52 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 12/12/2011 at 9:56 PM, eugene said:

what's smart about this ? everyone who is a fan has already seen them, what will drive people to buy those ?

 

because new fans who will seek out his back catalogue will have an easy way to purchase them? Or do you think a performer's fan base remains stagnant forever?

old fans who might have seen them, but not purchased the DVD, or who had lost the DVDs might feel you know "this guy makes his living off performing" and thus will wish to provide compensation for having enjoyed his performance. Not everyone is a cheap asshole with a sense of entitlement you know.

 

Also in terms of return on investment it's a fucking no-brainer. Hosting is ridiculously cheap, encoding is cheap. He sells like 5 of them he's made his investment back and everything else is fucking gravy.

he said it's gonna pay for a house he actually owns, which he's never had. if you read that and still pirate this, you're some motherfucker.

also 54.5k comment karma in four hours has to be some sort of record.

  On 12/13/2011 at 12:52 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 12/12/2011 at 9:56 PM, eugene said:

what's smart about this ? everyone who is a fan has already seen them, what will drive people to buy those ?

 

because new fans who will seek out his back catalogue will have an easy way to purchase them? Or do you think a performer's fan base remains stagnant forever?

old fans who might have seen them, but not purchased the DVD, or who had lost the DVDs might feel you know "this guy makes his living off performing" and thus will wish to provide compensation for having enjoyed his performance. Not everyone is a cheap asshole with a sense of entitlement you know.

 

Also in terms of return on investment it's a fucking no-brainer. Hosting is ridiculously cheap, encoding is cheap. He sells like 5 of them he's made his investment back and everything else is fucking gravy.

the hosting price is a good point, so he can't really lose anything from doing this. but that last move isn't something that brings a new batch of fans though, plus reissuing old stuff loses the novelty, it's something record labels do not a guy that wants to break that mentality. i still connected the 5$ to that new show specifically, not to the idea that he's a working guy that needs cash.

The last move isn't designed to bring in new fans - it's for when fans who newly discover him and want to see some of his earlier material have an easy, cheap way to do so.

When you first found out about Aphex - did you just assume you had discovered him on his first release? Or did you go and find his older material? When I first heard Bill Hicks, Louis CK, George Carlin - I went out and found a bunch of their back catalog. Now I didn't have an easy way to purchase that material at the time - if I had I would have happily picked it up at reasonable prices.