Wolfie Zero

I never got into Nine Inch Nails in the early days, I was took into my simplistic three-four piece punk rock (a la The Offspring, Green Day, Blink-182); but in recent years I came to listen to NIN a bit more in the form of ‘With Teeth’ that I thought was alright, but felt a bit incomplete. Then I came by ‘The Downward Spiral’ (thanks to the girlie) which was a bit more full on it’s self and I got more into the whole electro scene (having already heard some Electro-Punk like Epoxies, and Mindless Self Indulgence).

But now, thanks to the wonder of the internet, Trent Reznor has released his new album, ‘Ghosts I‘, on torrent.

This download does only include vol. I as Mr. Reznor is doing incremental releases.

Click on the image above if you want to download the whole lot now for a price ($5); I recommend it (yes, I paid).

This isn’t anything new; Radiohead did it with ‘In Rainbows‘ for a short time, but turned out it was a stunt set up by the record company. But Reznor has done a free album before with Saul Williams (as a featured artist) with his album ‘NiggyTardust‘, also a very good album; very much what you could concider being African-Punk as it looks at the history and oppression that is felt by Saul Williams.

Click on the links and get the album!

Laters.

A good article came up today in regards to what I posted yesterday about UK ISPs banning people who download music and films illegally.

5 Reasons Why Illegal Downloaders Will Not Face a UK Ban

1. This proposal was a draft consultation green paper, defined as “a proposal without any commitment to action.” The government receives many of these on a daily basis. They are like junk mail at Number 10 Downing Street. The Prime Minister’s toilet paper is more important than most green papers, and both are usually filed in the same place.

2. This proposal is totally and completely unworkable in the real world. ISPs will not accept liability for the contents of packets (nor should they), and it would be impossible for them to open and check if every single download and upload was legal or not without the entire Internet grinding to halt. This isn’t in the best interests of the government, the ISPs or the voters. Banning customers and exposing yourself to billions in liability isn’t a good business strategy. Criminalizing six million citizens and inconveniencing the rest is not a vote winner.

3. It would be impossible to tell the difference between illegal downloading and legal activities such as downloading software patches, using torrents to share stuff legally, playing online video games, using VoIP, photo sharing, telecommuting, and many others. The resistance from the private sector would be as strong as it would from the general public.

4. The very idea of this goes against the ruling of the European Court, which says EU member states are not obligated to disclose personal information about suspected file sharers. It would also fly in the face of Article 10 of the European freedom of expression laws, which gives every European the “freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.”

5. WiFi piggybacking and encrypted packets make it impossible to tell who is downloading what in the first place. These techniques are only getting more sophisticated, while for the most part, the content industries collectively remain as dumb as a box of hair.

So in summary:

Insert Toilet Flushing Sound FX Here

.Torrent Freak ]

It would be cool to see them right as it does make the ineternet a worring place where you are being followed. Mind you, if you are a high-volume downloader, you can get checked on already on why you are downloading so much; goes down to the 30GB fair-use policy.

Laters.