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Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music"
THX-1138 writes "A few months ago, Trent Reznor (frontman of the band Nine Inch Nails), was in Australia doing an interview when he commented on the outrageous prices of CDs there. Apparently now his label, Universal Media Group is angry at him for having said that. During a concert last night, he told fans, '...Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means — STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin'. Because one way or another these mother****ers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that's not right.'"
You're right, the 13 cents he makes per cd should totally be given back. Power to the people!
Nothing can stop him now.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
motherbuckers?
I'm a rabbit startled by the headlights of life
Yes, because those recording industry guys really hate it when people give them money. Man that gets them riled.
My guess is that having his cake and eating it too is a lot more attractive than giving up major label money and moving into the apartment next door to Jonathan Coulton's. But we'll see...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Guess publishers were smarter 2 scores ago.
...what the Anti-Christ is to the Catholics. :-P
Rock on Trent, rock on.
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H
But doesn't stealing something require taking it *WITHOUT* permission?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
If only there were some sort of large... electronic distribution network he could use... and if he could take those sounds and somehow send them over this network...
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? -C. Palahniuk
instead YOU have stolen our hearts, as ./ers, liberals, geeks, open source people and such.
what are you going to do about that ?
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He ought to split up, citing musical differences with himself. Then set up a new band under a different name.
Seriously though, he makes this plea at a concert, where he's doing what he does best, ie performing rather than perfecting it in a studio to be played off plastic, do the royalties really add up that much? Maybe he's happy to gig. If he's a "very rich man" then why tour now that NIN are no more?
For his last album he should do what Aphex Twin did and just let his cat walk all over his synthesizer for an hour.
He may be full of righteous anger towards his record company, but it sounds like he got what he deserved.
...bow down before the one you serve?
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If I were him, I'd make a whole CD out of white noise and screaming sounds, maybe with some drums on top for effect.
Bears don't normally eat things that talk and move backwards.
You have listened to a NiN album before, right?
Tool tickets cost 50 bucks a piece. I payed that with pleasure. Cause ya'know, tool is the greatest music ever made.
Fascism is the greatest political ideology ever conceived. Sorry.
Hah... as if UMG had class.
I always find it sad when the guy who misses the joke and retells the joke like he's the one that's clever gets the mod points.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
First time I downloaded a NiN track, I redownloaded a couple of times before I figured out it was actually supposed to sound like that and wasn't a corrupted file!
Umm.. downloading isn't stealing, right?
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In the new world, there's the internet, and you can do quite well for yourself keeping your mechanical rights and performing less.
:)
True, but I guess you're not a musician. Less performing means less groupies and less free beer...
ohh... this is Slashdot, sorry!
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$> more beer
I always thought IP meant Internet Protocol. But that's just me.
If I'm not mistaken though, it's largely Thomas Jefferson's work to define copyright law. To keep ye learned men writing ye learned works or some such.
I'm relatively sure the concept was, at first, relatively benign and not sinister at all.