I'm a big fan on NIN and applaued what Trent is doing...but whenever these types or articles get written they always add "with little to no production costs and nothing to pay to the labels." Or similar.
What about bandwidth costs? giving away 200mb of data to (conservatively) 250,000 people amounts to 50 Terrabytes of data! That can't be cheap.
Why don't the bands who do this (NIN, Radiohead, etc) use torrents? it will cheapen their bandwidth and promote the legal use of the torrent system.

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I'm a big fan on NIN and applaued what Trent is doing...but whenever these types or articles get written they always add "with little to no production costs and nothing to pay to the labels." Or similar.
What about bandwidth costs? giving away 200mb of data to (conservatively) 250,000 people amounts to 50 Terrabytes of data! That can't be cheap.
Why don't the bands who do this (NIN, Radiohead, etc) use torrents? it will cheapen their bandwidth and promote the legal use of the torrent system.

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NIN does use torrents on their lossless format. When I downloaded the last one a torrent file was available.

And on a different note, what the hell is going on with aggravting drop down banners? I can't even read the damn story without having to click close on every page. Evertime I turn around a freaking Nero or Circuit City banner is blocking it.

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Originally posted by magnets:

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I'm a big fan on NIN and applaued what Trent is doing...but whenever these types or articles get written they always add "with little to no production costs and nothing to pay to the labels." Or similar.
What about bandwidth costs? giving away 200mb of data to (conservatively) 250,000 people amounts to 50 Terrabytes of data! That can't be cheap.
Why don't the bands who do this (NIN, Radiohead, etc) use torrents? it will cheapen their bandwidth and promote the legal use of the torrent system.

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NIN does use torrents on their lossless format. When I downloaded the last one a torrent file was available.

And on a different note, what the hell is going on with aggravting drop down banners? I can't even read the damn story without having to click close on every page. Evertime I turn around a freaking Nero or Circuit City banner is blocking it.

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Please post your problem here, thanks :)

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/664079

Good, NiN know what to do... should have been done a long time ago.

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NIN does use torrents on their lossless format. When I downloaded the last one a torrent file was available.

And on a different note, what the hell is going on with aggravting drop down banners? I can't even read the damn story without having to click close on every page. Evertime I turn around a freaking Nero or Circuit City banner is blocking it.

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Ah, i didn't know that, well then, Yay NIN :0)

for your banner issue, use Firefox with adblock. Problem solved (though I'm not sure how after dawn feel about that...)

@TSRSteve

if you read the link DVDBack23 linked you to, you'll find this is not a new issue and that the powers that be are aware of it and addressing it continually in favor of the users.

As far as the article goes; i'm glad to see Trent moving forward on this front.

Back in the day, i listened to more than my fair share of NIN music. :)

IT IS WELLL NIN, and others Thanks for the above...