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That's amazing. Is there any precedent for this from an artist of comparable stature?

by p-e-w 4y ago

neontomo 4y ago
Nine Inch Nails released their music on What.CD (a music torrenting website), under an alias. Maybe a bit similar. They did it for the arts, very punk-like :)
- voxadam 4y ago
  Trent Reznor was a member of OiNK[0] but to my knowledge he's never said that he posted any of Nine Inch Nails' music there and he certainly never released any of their music to the public domain. [0] https://www.vulture.com/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_williams.html https://www.vulture.com/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_willia...
  - crtasm 4y ago
    https://torrentfreak.com/nin-confirms-bittorrent-uploads-080305/ https://torrentfreak.com/nin-confirms-bittorrent-uploads-080... they also had their own tracker: https://torrentfreak.com/nin-launches-bittorrent-tracker-for-new-release-090320/ https://torrentfreak.com/nin-launches-bittorrent-tracker-for...
  - neontomo 4y ago
    I used to be staff at What.CD, so that's where the info comes from. They had several accounts (which I don't think are a big secret actually, they've been very vocal about being pro-torrent), one of which was a random name that the public didn't know about. If I remember correctly, at least one of their albums was released on What.CD before being officially released to the public, or perhaps at the same time. My memory is a bit fuzzy on this.
082349872349872 4y ago
The Grateful Dead encouraged taping their shows
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  Yeah, but they didn't free-licence the copyrights. There was a fairly explicit permission to tape concerts; there was an implicit permission to trade tapes; but it was never permitted to trade tapes for money. I don't think there was ever a formal legal basic for the tapers.
  - dekhn 4y ago
    And then, later, when archive.org was hosting entire shows (soundboards and audience), the drummers came along and made them take down the full downloads (you can still stream).

That's amazing. Is there any precedent for this from an artist of comparable stature?

by p-e-w 4y ago

That's amazing. Is there any precedent for this from an artist of comparable stature?

Nine Inch Nails released their music on What.CD (a music torrenting website), under an alias. Maybe a bit similar. They did it for the arts, very punk-like :)

voxadam 4y ago
Trent Reznor was a member of OiNK[0] but to my knowledge he's never said that he posted any of Nine Inch Nails' music there and he certainly never released any of their music to the public domain. [0] https://www.vulture.com/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_williams.html https://www.vulture.com/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_willia...
- crtasm 4y ago
  https://torrentfreak.com/nin-confirms-bittorrent-uploads-080305/ https://torrentfreak.com/nin-confirms-bittorrent-uploads-080... they also had their own tracker: https://torrentfreak.com/nin-launches-bittorrent-tracker-for-new-release-090320/ https://torrentfreak.com/nin-launches-bittorrent-tracker-for...
- neontomo 4y ago
  I used to be staff at What.CD, so that's where the info comes from. They had several accounts (which I don't think are a big secret actually, they've been very vocal about being pro-torrent), one of which was a random name that the public didn't know about. If I remember correctly, at least one of their albums was released on What.CD before being officially released to the public, or perhaps at the same time. My memory is a bit fuzzy on this.

082349872349872 4y ago

The Grateful Dead encouraged taping their shows

denton-scratch 4y ago
Yeah, but they didn't free-licence the copyrights. There was a fairly explicit permission to tape concerts; there was an implicit permission to trade tapes; but it was never permitted to trade tapes for money. I don't think there was ever a formal legal basic for the tapers.
- dekhn 4y ago
  And then, later, when archive.org was hosting entire shows (soundboards and audience), the drummers came along and made them take down the full downloads (you can still stream).