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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Nine Inch Nails Gives Away Another Album Online: No Payments Accepted
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>> | Nine Inch Nails is back at it again by throwing more free music towards
>> | the masses with its latest album entitled "the slip." This time around
>> | the free download is working a bit different- the band isn't even
>> | allowing for donations.
>> |
>> | The album can be found over at NIN's Web site. If you remember it was
>> | only two months ago when NIN released an instrumental album online with
>> | a unique pay structure, with a most common $5 fee for the standard
>> | 36-track album, but now NIN frontman, Trent Reznor, just wants his music
>> | to be heard as there's
>> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> | no options for payments or donations.
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>> http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006891.html
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>> New business model [1]? Concerts as the equivalent of support contracts?
>> The media moguls are already fighting this like bullies [2].
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> Thats a massive statement that bands are taking control of their own
> destiny. No more management deductions and promotion deductions
> leaving the artist with nothing but pennies. The real power of
> Internet music is to promote a band's music to the greatest number
> of listeners at lowest cost without any middlemen choking off distribution
> by putting a price on the recording. If the band have what it takes
> their shows will be booked out from coast to coast.
> Each big live show could then net them a million dollars easy.
> That says a lot about why music promoters are not welcomed by
> the internet for ANY REASON. Most of the time,
> they steal money from bands and they steal money from the punters
> and are a real drain on music industry resources.
Another important issue is the attempt to destroy the medium. The RIAA would
love to see P2P and Torrent blocked at ISP-level in order to suffocate
artists' independence attempts (or charge premiums for bandwidth, or end
neutrality). The copyright infringements they claim (they call it "piracy"
and "crime") are just an excuse and distraction, just like kiddie porn and the
T word (terrorism).
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