Nine Inch Nails has released the first of two volumes from their latest album dubbed “Ghosts” as a free download via torrent sites. Trent Reznor tells fans to share it as much as possible. Now that the band is no longer apart of a record label, the Creative Commons liscense has been put on the music – meaning it’s free.
When you read the release notes after downloading the torrent, it contains a little excerpt about this new way of music sharing: “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.”
But the download isn’t the whole thing – you will have to fork over $5 to get the entire two volume set off the Nine Inch Nails website. All in all, the tracks total to 36, and is available through a variety of file formats. Look to The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites for artwork and music. Wait a few days and the entire volume will be released in torrents.
This latest move by Trent Reznor comes as no surprise to internet pirates. The frontman of NIN admits that he himself shared music via OiNK back in May of 2007.
