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True, King's model needed work, and I agree the price was too high. However, when faced with something whose price is too high, you have two choices: One, to leave it, since you don't want to pay for it; and Two, to take it anyway. King's bulk of online fans picked Two.
It would have been one thing if King got fewer downloaders, but everyone paid... he might have lost money on the deal, but finished the project anyway. Instead, he got a lot of downloaders, and not enough would pay, and based on the established agreement, he canned the project.
If all those people who'd said "I'm not going to pay for that!" had just walked away without downloading, it would have made a good case for human nature and honesty (even if not for a good business plan). But they didn't, and what we got was an example of the downside of piracy and the inherent selfishness of human nature.
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