With recent discussions over sharing, piracy and making money from creative endeavours, I thought it would be interesting to point some people toward this article on Nine Inch Nails latest experiment.
In the past NIN have released albums free, encouraged sharing on Bittorrent and ditched the record label that used to control them. They have encouraged remixing of their tracks, allowing downloads of better-than-CD quality files to further this endeavour. They continue to innovate and find new ways to engage an audience. New ways that authors and other creators might take on board themselves.
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009...reznor-wa.html