February 11 at 12:43pm

New Model: Bit Torrent Fee Sharing To Content Creators

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Scott Macauley of FilmmakerMagBlog tipped me to this.  He writes:

Peter Sunde, one of the founders of the torrent site The Pirate Bay, has launched his venture, Flattr. Basically, on a monthly basis you commit to an amount of money that you’ll disperse to content creators. Then, as the month goes by, you click on their Flattr buttons and at the end of the month the service divvies up your funds and gives an equal amount to each person you’ve clicked.

Flattr.com – How Flattr Works from Flattr on Vimeo.


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  • Any updates?

  • Ted,

    Ask yourself this question as a consumer first: How much money will I put in every month? Then ask yourself how many people you will support?

    I'm willing to bet that the average person puts in less than 10 bucks a month and supports more than 20 projects per month.

    Without knowing what the fees are to Flattr and knowing that a percentage will go to PayPal and/ or other transaction processors....what is the anchor point on value being set on the person listing their product? Its dismal...awful and embarrassing.

    This method is truly like holding your hat out, as you are basically saying that will take anything, and this of course is the drive towards to a price point of zero.

    I'm not buying the cake analogy either. I'm usually not such a pessimist regarding start ups but this one is truly devaluing the content creator.

    just my .02

  • Adam Collis

    And I quite like Flattr. Hope it takes off.

  • Adam Collis

    hopeforfilm.com seems to be it's own tagline.
    the new blog format is excellent!

  • Sounds great. Self-distribution tools are clearly coming. A future of direct creator-audience collaboration is coming closer to reality every day and is undoubtedly the future.

  • Hey there, Ted. Saw your Twitter post asking about tag lines for hopeforfilm.com. How about this?

    All Hopeful Content. All the time.

  • steventhat

    Whoa...that is a really good idea. i hope it will take off.

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