Well speaking of which (and not to put too fine a point on it) Trent Reznor’s
carefully crafted foray into the Pirate Bay
looks like an absolute no-brainer to me… regardless of the corporate strings being pulled/cut etc…
If you get a bit of this :
With this :
http://digg.com/music/RIAA_claims_rights_to_all_artists_royalties
“I release some of my work under the CC license so sites like soma.fm and other people making videos can use my material without hunting me down to get my permission. But it seems SoundExchange is playing the job of the heavy here whether I like or not. Well, I don’t like it. How can this compulsory license override my free and open CC license. this crap just blows me away.”
the distillation of which is overwhelmingly:
“Fuck the RIAA.”
Which on Digg is pretty unusual – normally they can’t agree on anything.
Is Digg market research?... any kind of social barometer at all?
Dunno. It is to me.
What NIN are doing may just be paying cynical lip-service to one of the more enduring aspects of teen-spirit… but to be honest, at this point, for someone like NIN to NOT be positioning themselves in diametric opposition to the RIAA would be to be blindly, suicidally out of touch with their own culture.