[tikumo]

Yeah but this musician provides free downloads of his music and high quality garage band files for a low price. That makes it somewhat different..

From his site: as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.

[spriggan3]

> Yeah but this musician provides free downloads of his music and high quality garage band files for a low price. That makes it somewhat different..

After making loads of money in the 90s from the very music industry he despises now. It's easy to give stuff for free when you are already rich.

[k-mcgrady]

Ok so he has lots of money, has given a lot of his stuff away for free but is complaining about businesses being built from stolen content. Why? I guess he's standing up for the musicians without a loud enough voice to complain about this stuff then.