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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.