Nine Inch Nails Give Away New Single on Facebook
Written by enigmax on May 04, 2008After experimenting with free BitTorrent distribution on their last album, ‘Ghosts’, The Nine Inch Nails are today releasing their latest single ‘Echoplex’ for free, to tens of millions of Facebook users. Also, everyone should check out NIN.com tomorrow - apparently a “surprise” awaits.
In March, the Nine Inch Nails released their album ‘Ghosts’ under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, meaning that it can be shared freely. The band confirmed that they had uploaded the album themselves to sites like The Pirate Bay, Waffles.fm and What.cd. This is of course great news for BitTorrent fans, and a move which did the Nails’ image no harm at all.
Fans of the Nails will be delighted to hear that the free music vibe is going to get a fresh boost today. According to a report, a brand new track from the band entitled “Echoplex”, is now available for free download to millions of Facebook users.
Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails has always been pro-filesharing and admits to downloading music using BitTorrent and was a member and supporter of the shuttered OiNK tracker.
For those without a Facebook account, no doubt there will be a copy of ‘Echoplex’ on your nearest BitTorrent tracker soon but make sure you check out the information included with the release. Apparently, those visiting www.nin.com, on May 5 are in for a surprise…..
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I hope NIN become _really_ successful. Earn enough money from doing what they do. Be it to drive the point _home_.
NIN has done a lot of this. Congrats for trying new mediums. Their stuff can be found here. http://liner.org
Fans of the Nails will be delighted to hear that the free music vibe is going to get a fresh boost today. xexe
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So go get the new album at NIN.COM
Another bite … tot the music industry. For free again.
It’s a whole new album.
LIKE OMG AND THEY GAVE AWAY THE WHOLE ALBUM FOR FREE
http://dl.nin.com/theslip/
wake up guys.
It’s not “The Nine Inch Nails”, it’s Nine Inch Nails.
I wish they set it up so that people could donate a amount if they wanted to. I would at the very least donate a dollar to pay for their bandwidth and server cost, if not more.
NIN is great, I wish Trent the best in his endeavors.
[quote comment="373110"]it was actually released on ilike first.
also, this has nothing to do with torrent news?
no surprise here at all.[/quote]
torrent freak is not just about torrents, its about the filesharing community and mentality in general, so this is certainly relevant.
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