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Another Nine Inch Nails Props Post

// January 23rd, 2009 // General, Technology

I know that I’ve already posted about my respect for Nine Inch Nails’ frontman Trent Reznor, but he keeps impressing me every time I turn around. There’s a new blog entry on nin.com about the video projects that people are doing with the 400 Gigs of free HD video that Trent gave away from the Lights in the Sky tour. The new entry provides links to a new forum that was setup specifically for the fans to share any of their creations that they’ve come up with from the videos. People have uploaded some video clips, High Res screen caps, as well as low-to-high quality MP3 options & Lossless 5.1 Surround Wav files from the concert footage. 

I’ve been a Nine Inch Nails fan since I was in the 5th grade (like 14 years) so I’ve always thought Trent Reznor was an amazing artist and a very very smart businessman, but I have to say that after everything he’s done, he is the one and only artist that has earned this much respect from me. He takes care of his fans like no other musician does, and seems to truly be in it for the love of what he does, moreso than just for the money. I really do hope that more musicians follow in his footsteps. It’s nice to see someone has our back.

Metallica completely blew it for me with the whole Napster thing. I used to LOVE me some Metallica — now I feel “meh” when I hear them. I mean their whole deal with the Napster thing back in the day completely baffled me because it was a straight up attack on their fans. I mean it wasn’t in any way diplomatic at all, it was just “YOU KEPT US FROM GETTING MORE MONEY, WE WILL SUE YOU NOW!” I know that the whole digital music thing back then was a brand new concept, but the mentality of “ignore it (and just sue) and it will go away” instead of trying to understand and adapt to the new technology, blows me away. I remember reading an article (I believe it was in Rolling Stone) that said the RIAA executives didn’t even really know what the internet was and was just blindsided by the Napster situation. Really? You’re the head of the entire United States recording industry and you’re not trying to stay up with technology? Wow. You can tell their “higher ups” are old, old, old people. If I were the US Government, I would have put an end to the insane amount of STUPID lawsuit cases the RIAA has been involved with for the last 9 years. It’s ridiculous. Their actions make me WANT to steal music…and on that note, an awesome Diggnation clip on that exact statement: