A estos pollos de la RIAA, q vienen a ser como la SGAE pero en usa, no les ha molao mucho lo de los usb de Reznor.

Even Trent Reznor Wants To Give The RIAA A Smackdown

trent-reznor.jpgNot to toot our own horns, but today we got a nice little bit of confirmation that those Nine Inch Nails leaks from a month or so ago were actually the work of Trent Reznor, and that the RIAA acted a bit too hastily in calling in their lawyers. From Billboard:

According to one post, a male fan, allegedly by happenstance, found a USB drive in a bathroom stall during a NIN concert at the Coliseum in Lisbon, Portugal. This flash drive (yes, Reznor's idea) contained an MP3 of album track "My Violent Heart." Additional USB drives were purportedly found in Barcelona and Manchester, England; they included MP3s of album tracks "Me, I'm Not" and "In This Twilight," respectively.

Excited fans then began swapping and sharing these music files online. Another Web posting alleged that all this activity resulted in entertainment blog Idolator and other sites receiving e-mail from the Recording Industry Association of America, demanding that they remove the MP3s from their sites. An RIAA representative confirms this, a move that boggles the minds of many. "These f*cking idiots are going after a campaign that the label signed off on," the [label] source says.

You'd think that a trade group that supposedly "supports and promotes [its] members' creative and financial vitality" would at least check with said members before running off to suppress its artists' creative impulsives--or are the RIAA's people too busy thinking about perceived financial "vitality" to even care about that other part? Wait, don't tell us.