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Nine Inch Nails and the CXCR6 are the latest news in the trend, ever more impressive, of freely distributed music on the Web.
About NIN, the album "Ghosts I-IV" got first spot on CD sales on Amazon in 2008, in spite of it being downloadable freely, legally and officially, on P2P networks with a Creative Commons license. Now I discover they are also distributing 400GB (no typo here!) of raw HD footage from 3 of their concerts, for their fans to play with - that is amazing. The news is here on the NIN web-site and the torrents are here.
The news about CXCR6 is here on TorrentFreak: a Netlabel specialized in distributing it's bands albums for free on BitTorrent to get them exposure.
Rock on!
this is a nice article about NIN...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156602/nine_inch_nails_the_first_opensource_band.html
btw, apart from the innovating distribution methods, if you don't knwo NIN you should give it a go... though it's certainly not easy listening...
Posted by: Luca F. | January 11, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Great article, thanks for the link Luca.
My brother in law is a big fan of the band but I admit NIN is more than I can handle. But the way they market their music and treat their fans is very impressive. I love that!
Posted by: Louis Choquel | January 11, 2009 at 03:25 PM