Word Soup

From a recent concert:

"Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means - STEAL IT. Steal away! Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin’. Because one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they’re ripping people off and that that’s not right."

Of course he's also been releasing his tracks as open source mixable material, the result of which is a new double-album full of remixes entitled: The Limitless Potential."

This is in contrast to an artist like Prince, whose solution for illegal downloading is to sue everyone, even operations like the Pirate Bay in Sweden who have proven immune to U.S. litigation.

The difference being I think that Reznor sees the future and understands technology well enough to grok that music and film are never going to be securely locked ever again, and the music industry needs to adapt, create new innovative business models, or die.

Prince on the other hand, isolated in his purple womb of toe sucking or whatever the fuck, looked up one day, discovered piracy, and figured that standing in the middle of the raging river with his lawyer was a legitimate option.