People who regularily visit Digg.com probably already know it: Nine Inch Nails – one of my favourite bands – just released their new full-length album “Ghosts I-IV” with 36 tracks under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license! You can download the album from their official site in various editions, amongst whose is also a completly free download version. The paid versions range from $5 for the download-only version (encoded in 320kbps mp3, lossless FLAC or some lossless Apple codec) including a PDF booklet to a $300 “Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition Package” – everything 100% DRM-free. Now isn’t that cool?!
But it gets even better:
Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them.
(Source: The Pirate Bay)
Trent uploaded the first part of the album on Pirate Bay himself! Now take your hat of to this great man and support him! I’ve just ordered the $10 CD version and am now in the process of downloading the album…
