So Louis C.K. riffs on the online world's hatred of DRM, and it's cool, but a fellow programmer riffs on Louis C.K.'s success to help his street-performing musician dad, and it's disgraceful? I think both are cool.
Cool, yes; newsworthy, not really: people have been doing this since 2002 at least.
The newsworthy factor for Louis was about a big comedian deserting the old distribution model, something that had mostly been done before only in the music world (Radiohead, Trent Reznor, etc etc). (Even the, it got much more publicity than it really deserved, but that's the magic of showbiz for you.)
But this? This is a nobody uploading mp3s on the net. Is this new? No. Is this hacker-related? No. Is this Louis-related? No. It's just a marketing trick. What next, "hey Hacker News, here's my store selling potatoes directly on the internet, I'm doing it like amazon" ?
