[CoLoCo] Amazon MP3's

[Chomafin]

It's working as of about 11 AM this morning. I just finished up with my
purchase, and have successfully unzipped the archive. I've heard reports
that the link from days past will work to re download the album as well.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:39 AM, TJ Heaney <tjheaney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a note on the new NIN albums,
>
> I've heard some samples, sounds good, BUT when I attempted to download it,
> it wasn't liking the DL. There's been a TON of traffic, so you may want to
> wait.
>
> TJ
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Chomafin <chomafin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On topic with your rant Jim, you may be interested in the new Nine Inch
> > Nails Project.
> > Trent Reznor has recently dropped his label, so he is now in complete
> > control of his music.  This past Sunday March 1st, he has released his new
> > album, Ghosts <http://ghosts.nin.com>.  This Album has been released to
> > the net as DRM-Free, Creative Commons ShareAlike<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/>MP3's.
> > Also, he has set up various price points that you can buy the record,
> > from a free 9 song sample d/l at 320kbs all the way up to a $300 deluxe
> > package (limited to 2500 copies which have already sold out).
> >
> > I am hoping with this, along with Radiohead, others will hope in line
> > and drop off the RIAA bandwagon.  It seems that is it a very exciting time
> > to be a music fan!.
> > *
> > *
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Nelson E. Ingersoll <
> > > nelson.ingersoll at email.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >  DRM is wrong.  Don't
> > > > support it in any way.
> > > >
> > > > <rant>
> > > I'm something of an anarchist by nature. I personally hate the
> > > download music business in all forms. The Internet is like the old west.
> > > It's wild, dangerous and full of opportunity. Anyone trying to limit that
> > > opportunity is just a buzz-kill. I have nothing against artist getting paid
> > > for what they do but they don't get paid much - the labels are making the
> > > money. Artist should take control of their work and distribute MP3s for free
> > > and then package high quality audio on feature packed discs (or downloadable
> > > iso or something) for sale. Thanks in part to all this MP3 crap DVD-Audio
> > > and SACD have more or less died. Maybe Blu-Ray audio in on the horizon but
> > > doesn't anyone care about quality anymore? I don't buy CDs anymore. Not
> > > because I download everything for free but because they are overpriced,
> > > featureless, and usually bad music. I was buying SACDs and DVD-Audio but
> > > they have once again lost me as a customer. RIAA needs to wake up and stop
> > > peddling crud and realize that is as much a reason for poor sales as
> > > downloading. NIN got it right. I hope we see more of that in the near
> > > future.</rant>
> > >
> > > -jim
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