RIAA chases down promotional tracks

[ZippyDSMlee]

Nine Inch Nails, trying to promote their new album "Year Zero" have hit a roadblock. That roadblock is the RIAA.

In trying to promote their album, NIN released an internet scavenger hunt that led to a website where you can download singles from the new album. The band also dropped USB flash drives in the bathrooms of their concert venues, with each drive containing a song from the new album.

The idea was to get fans to swap the music and start talking about the new CD which is exactly what happened.

The whole plan backfired when the RIAA began to send out emails demanding the fans to remove the music from their sites and threatening to sue them for every single shared.

Why the RIAA is going against a decision that was signed off by the label they are trying to protect is anyones guess.


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this is what you get when you keep a lawyer firm around and just feed them moeny without giving them direction....

[Bad Wolf]

This is definitely one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. The band should be allowed to advertise their own albums any way they see fit.

[steelcobra]

Simple: The company wants the money from the album, and what the band has to say about it counts for less than nothing in their books.

[ZippyDSMlee]

This is definitely one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. The band should be allowed to advertise their own albums any way they see fit.

the RIAA is a disembodied lawyer group that gets paid by the large labels to mindlessly troll for any instance of fair or illicit use,because they mindlessly troll even things OK"D BY THE LABELS can be fodder for their war effort.

steelcobra
above in bold :X
even the labels signed off on it yet the RIAA which is paid by said label went after it....I hope this is the start of the end of the RIAA.

[Demontestament]

Well seeing as everything else they have ever done has been a total failure I would tell them to go **** themselves. And if I were NIN I would find a way to get out of my contract and make my own company and tell RIAA to **** off with their "OMG intarwebz downloads kill our monies!"

Why do I care if Master P. can't buy his son an island?

[kurisu7885]

Well seeing as everything else they have ever done has been a total failure I would tell them to go **** themselves. And if I were NIN I would find a way to get out of my contract and make my own company and tell RIAA to **** off with their "OMG intarwebz downloads kill our monies!"

Why do I care if Master P. can't buy his son an island?

Or if Brittany Spears has to trade to a smaller jet. If anything, that makes me want to download more.

[Thefremen]

I can see why the RIAA haets NIN over this, Trent Reznor invented the perfect drm. there is no ****ing way you will understand any of the songs (on year zero) without refrencing supplimental material.

This coming from a Coheed and Cambria fan.

[Pelor]

Now, suing old ladies I can understand. The RIAA is negligent and incompetent.

But suing yourself? That's definitely something else.

[ZippyDSMlee]

Now, suing old ladies I can understand. The RIAA is negligent and incompetent.

But suing yourself? That's definitely something else.

THIS IS MADDNESS!!!

this is corporate lawyering!

[Anjin-San]

Given the nature of the album, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's intentional. On Trent's part, anyhow. It's gonna rile up a hell of a lot of people.