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Not to toot our own horns, but today we got a nice little bit of confirmation that those Nine Inch Nails leaks from a month or so ago were actually the work of Trent Reznor, and that the RIAA acted a bit too hastily in calling in their lawyers. From Billboard:
According to one post, a male fan, allegedly by happenstance, found a USB drive in a bathroom stall during a NIN concert at the Coliseum in Lisbon, Portugal. This flash drive (yes, Reznor's idea) contained an MP3 of album track "My Violent Heart." Additional USB drives were purportedly found in Barcelona and Manchester, England; they included MP3s of album tracks "Me, I'm Not" and "In This Twilight," respectively.
Excited fans then began swapping and sharing these music files online. Another Web posting alleged that all this activity resulted in entertainment blog Idolator and other sites receiving e-mail from the Recording Industry Association of America, demanding that they remove the MP3s from their sites. An RIAA representative confirms this, a move that boggles the minds of many. "These f*cking idiots are going after a campaign that the label signed off on," the [label] source says.
You'd think that a trade group that supposedly "supports and promotes [its] members' creative and financial vitality" would at least check with said members before running off to suppress its artists' creative impulsives—or are the RIAA's people too busy thinking about perceived financial "vitality" to even care about that other part? Wait, don't tell us.
Online Odyssey Stoking Interest In New NIN Album [Billboard]
Earlier: RIAA Serving As Vaccine For Nine Inch Nails' Viral-Marketing Scheme
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"These f*cking idiots are going after a campaign that the label signed off on."
OOOOOOOH RIAA, I BET YOU FEEL CRUNCHY!!
wow, this is just way too funny. the riaa jumping the gun? you don't say!
what a bunch of morons! i hope this story develops some steam and really becomes a blackeye for the riaa.
Yeah! Fuck the RIAA!
Brian - I told you this caper smelled a little sour...buncha jerks
Yup, further proof that the RIAA are f-cking idiots and that their claims to be working o/b/o the record labels is, for the most part, an empty sham.
I haven't bought a music album in years but the hubbub about Year Zero marketing has certainly piqued my interest this time around. I say if Reznor wants to promote his album by giving stuff away, that's a pretty darn good reason to buy from him. Not to mention his artistic genius. Granted the RIAA takes its cut. It reminds me of the time Limp Bizkit told fans at a concert to "download this song"
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