According to a story just released only 38% of those who downloaded Radiohead's new album paid anything for it.

This was the great "honesty box" experiment. Americans were the most generous paying about $8.00 per download while 62% of those who downloaded the album (I almost said "LP"!) paid nothing. It was an interesting experiment in market economics. They let the market set the price but they didn't suggest to the market what the price should be. Did 62% of those who downloaded the album actually think that it was worth nothing? If they would have paid something, were it required, but didn't pay anything because it was required, does that make them thieves of a sort?

As a Calvinist, I can't say I'm surprised. Would you pay if it wasn't necessary? Doesn't this whole experiment assume a basic goodness of human nature that history and revelation demonstrate not to exist?