There is an interesting article in The Campus Word which asks if Trent Reznor's recent efforts with the release of Ghosts are single-handedly fixing the music industry. The record industry's business model has, for a while, been based on physical objects. You are not buying a license to listen to music, you are buying a [...]
Read More »Radiohead was one of the first bands to release an album for free over the internet, but they later wound up releasing a regular album and taking their download links down. They also view the effort as something of a failure, and Trent Reznor chalks this up to them being insincere. Reznor points out that [...]
Read More »Just following up on the post about how Trent Reznor's Open Source-style music made $750,000 in a few days… Those figures were for the premium edition only. Some new numbers have been released, and Nine Inch Nails has made $1.6 million off the freely available album. It's also worth mentioning the Trent lambasted Radiohead for [...]
Read More »In the very same open source philosophy that led to Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor releasing his latest album, Ghosts, on bittorrent with a Creative Commons license, Trent has now teamed up with Web 2.0 favorite YouTube to host a film festival surrounding the new album. Trent explains the film festival here: The concept [...]
Read More »I wanted to follow up a bit on yesterday's post, regarding the band Nine Inch Nails making tons of money despite releasing their latest album on torrent sites under a Creative Commons License. This actually was not the first time Nine Inch Nails has experimented with progressive, open-source concepts in relation to it's music. Trent [...]
Read More »This past week, the band Nine Inch Nails released a new studio album consisting of 36 tracks on the internet. He uploaded a torrent of the album to The Pirate Bay as well as other torrent sites, all completely free. And not just free as in 'free beer', but free as in 'free speech'. All [...]
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