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- JessicaSarahS, on 03/04/2008, -12/+145Obama/Reznor '08!!
- utopia2064, on 03/04/2008, -15/+127Two of my favorite people changing the world as we know it.
- hoffey, on 03/04/2008, -15/+103Wow, this article is stupid.
Whats next? Obama gives homeless man a fish taco? Or how about.. Dick Cheney endorses Obama? No?
Fine, we will stick with "NIN does something cool, Obama has nothing to do with it." - warped2k, on 03/04/2008, -7/+61Dugg. Perhaps the next 'internet lesson' from NIN is better servers. Paid my $5 but still had to download it from a torrent after their server died and the download link was good for one go only
- jtq1, on 03/04/2008, -4/+53was this article written JUST to be on digg? i'm not even complaining, we should all be flattered.
- ninedead, on 03/04/2008, -10/+53can never go wrong when you mix nin and voter empowerment!
- fragile00, on 03/04/2008, -7/+41And nothing can stop them now!
- jonvictorino, on 03/04/2008, -11/+45Dugg because Trent told me too and I'm a mindless drone.
- atomicskip, on 03/04/2008, -5/+38Knowing my fellow nin fans, they may over analyze this. "Obama/Reznor '08???"
- Bravesguy18, on 03/04/2008, -2/+34Reznor also plans to release a $500 version that includes 2 extra polka songs and several strands of his pubes.
- Disclaim3r, on 03/04/2008, -12/+36Dugg for great justice.
- AtomsForWar, on 03/04/2008, -0/+21'cause they don't care - anymore.
- Shiftyeyedgoat, on 03/04/2008, -2/+22Dugg for Trent Reznor's business model, not for Obama's passing internet usage.
- uhohzombies, on 03/04/2008, -2/+21Who the hell wrote that article? BitTorrent is an "underground filing-trading service" now? I didn't realize that all the legitimate commercial users of the protocol suddenly abandoned it and left it strictly to the software pirates and copyright abusers.
Not to mention "filing-trading"... does this guy have any grasp on technology whatsoever? - thedragon4453, on 03/04/2008, -0/+17I have to agree. I am surprised TWSJ didnt include something about how Trent uses a mac, or one of them loves the iphone or something.
- bat-21, on 03/04/2008, -1/+17The lesson is if you want to send large files to a lot of people in a short period of time, use P2P. What should have happened is after someone paid $5, the confirmation email would have contained a unique password giving the customer access to a private Bittorrent tracker with Trent's servers acting as the initial seeders.
- AdebisiTheGamer, on 03/04/2008, -0/+15amazing the value you can get when the RIAA and the labels don't take a cut....
- Radar3D, on 03/04/2008, -1/+16So what we have learned from both is that to be successful on the Internet, it helps greatly to be successful offline first. Would anyone consider buying Ghosts if it was made by some no name? Not likely. I have great respect for both, but there's not really a "lesson" to be learned from either that is repeatable by most.
- SHv2, on 03/04/2008, -1/+15The real question is, how many of those people did exactly like I did. We PAID for it, the download failed off the site, we go to a torrent to snatch it.
- sarixe, on 03/04/2008, -0/+14interesting... the misspelling of a name, and the misjudging of another's politics!
- Aidje, on 03/04/2008, -3/+17They say that there's no such thing as Obamaspam, and yet even NIN's new release is turned into a pro-Obama event.
- promiscmode, on 03/04/2008, -1/+14Trent's music was my first music purchase in over 2 years. $5 for 36 tracks. Finally someone's listening to their customer base.
- db74, on 03/04/2008, -1/+13LOL, you don't know what your talking about (The details I mean).
Radiohead dipped their toes in. Trent Reznor has jumped in with both feet.
Also the super deluxe edition which was $300 a pop SOLD OUT in 48 hours - pintomp3, on 03/04/2008, -13/+25obama is getting 4% of the vote and has no delegates?
- ekrekel, on 03/04/2008, -0/+12Trent for Prez...He fixes the internetz
- Antixian, on 03/04/2008, -1/+10i was able to download using my link multiple times. i finally got it last night and it was worth the servers crashing!
- darkcompass, on 03/04/2008, -0/+9I did the same - then waited until late last night before downloading. It came through fine - albeit at around 15k a second. I'm sure the lessons will be learned, and people are looking intently at this to see if it could work for them, and I welcome this - more power to the artist!
- pintomp3, on 03/04/2008, -1/+10actually, the bottom up style was built by dean's campaign. paul had success with, obama seems to have perfected it.
- inactive, on 03/04/2008, -0/+9its a series of tubes, its not a big truck, it's not just something you can dump something on.
- deanlowe, on 03/04/2008, -3/+12You say empowerment, I say ID theft and spam target. No one cares about privacy anymore.
- nugx, on 03/04/2008, -4/+11Reznor for CTO?
- DanOnTheMoon, on 03/04/2008, -1/+8Military-Industrial Music Complex, get it?
- evan119, on 03/04/2008, -0/+6the wretched ones were digging you guys down, i had to help you out.
- DestroyFascism, on 03/04/2008, -6/+12He did though you evil bury people....
- plizard, on 03/04/2008, -0/+6omg dna cloning ftw
- thailand1972, on 03/04/2008, -0/+6Agree, and it gets repetitive telling Diggers how it works - established artists can afford to do this - it's actually rather a good publicity move and you earn kudos for sticking to that man everyone hates (by essentially offering your music for free, with payment options for fans such as signed vinyl, more tracks etc). Unknown artists have been giving their music away online for over a decade with PayPal contribution buttons but to no effect because everyone's still too busy sucking the dicks of artists who're signed to labels.
- thailand1972, on 03/04/2008, -6/+12Changing the world? If you think that's the case, your complacency will never change the world.
- terminal157, on 03/04/2008, -2/+7Try to be informed about what you criticize, please.
- DrxLecter, on 03/04/2008, -0/+5and his wonderful series of tubes.
- happyfundave, on 03/04/2008, -0/+5Most critics credit his album The Downward Spiral as his finest production.
- Chirp08, on 03/04/2008, -1/+6phhs obama doesn't even have a blimp, fail.
- Jacob, on 03/04/2008, -3/+8Paul has delegates... Not a significant amount but he does have some.
- nospinhere, on 03/04/2008, -3/+8How so?:
"Also, the Obama campaign has made available its database of supporters to anyone who wants access to the information"
You got to be kidding me, even Obamabots can't be that dense. - dinot, on 03/04/2008, -1/+6Howard Dean would like to fix your ignorance.
- ninjadave, on 03/04/2008, -3/+8The vote for the Patriot Act occured in 2001. Obama was not in the Senate until 2004. What kind of republican troll are you?
- ferrite, on 03/04/2008, -0/+5The Patriot Act was renewed in 2006 and yes, he voted for it
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_li ...
What kind of Republican troll do the facts make me? - emildorbell, on 03/04/2008, -0/+5How was anything lukewarm about the response Niggy Tardust got on Digg? Were you even here when it hit?
- inactive, on 03/04/2008, -8/+13Both have Al Gore to thank for it!
- barfooz, on 03/04/2008, -3/+8Dugg for fish taco. Delicious fishy goodness.
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