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Nine Inch Nails Continues to Prove They "Get it"
Yesterday I randomly found out about a NIN fan project entitled “The Gift” from the fan group This One is On Us/Another Version of the Truth. What this is, is a a full length concert video created from over 450 gigabytes (GB) of video footage shot from HD cameras by the NIN crew that was released by NIN.com to see what their fans would produce. The end result is a full length concert video containing 32 songs, 5.1 surround sound, and released in a variety of formats (including a single layer Blu-Ray). All variations are available via BitTorrent downloading for free. Just to be clear, the video is professionally shot, the completed Blu-Ray/DVD/video files are fan made from that video. Continue reading
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Nine Inch Nails Continues to Prove They “Get it”
Yesterday I randomly found out about a NIN fan project entitled “The Gift” from the fan group This One is On Us/Another Version of the Truth. What this is, is a a full length concert video created from over 450 gigabytes (GB) of video footage shot from HD cameras by the NIN crew that was released by NIN.com to see what their fans would produce. The end result is a full length concert video containing 32 songs, 5.1 surround sound, and released in a variety of formats (including a single layer Blu-Ray). All variations are available via BitTorrent downloading for free. Just to be clear, the video is professionally shot, the completed Blu-Ray/DVD/video files are fan made from that video. Continue reading
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Tagged hd, Music, nine inch nails, video
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“Thicker Than Water” by Vallejo
While I was in Austin, TX for CodeCamp 2008, I made a stop by Waterloo Records (6th & Lamar) which is probably my favorite record store. I randomly browsed for a bit before getting the definitive item I went to the store for. That item was Vallejo’s latest album, “Thicker Than Water” and it was the only think I managed to walk out the store with. Continue reading
"Thicker Than Water" by Vallejo
While I was in Austin, TX for CodeCamp 2008, I made a stop by Waterloo Records (6th & Lamar) which is probably my favorite record store. I randomly browsed for a bit before getting the definitive item I went to the store for. That item was Vallejo’s latest album, “Thicker Than Water” and it was the only think I managed to walk out the store with. Continue reading
“Nightmare” Live
Back in late 1999-2001 I was in a band that went through several name changes. The names were Refuge, Diadem 4, Diadem, and finally H.O. Easy. We wrote probably around 8 songs and some of them even ended up with … Continue reading
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Watermarking DRM-Free Music Files
A couple of weeks back I talked about the advantages of iTunes going DRM-Free and why this was important for the whole realm of online media distribution. It has been brought to our attention that these DRM-Free files that you … Continue reading →