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 I may be biased, because my son plays violin in this video, but these kids were incredible!  Just had to share with my friends, family, and thousands of total strangers.

Tonight I found it interesting that the blogosphere was all a twitter (ok, sorry, couldn’t resist!) about NiN again! Sarah posted about them yesterday, and today, I found out a bit more about what they are up to.  Nine Inch Nails is not exactly what I consider mainstream, and there are only a few songs I know by name, but being a musician, of course I know the impact they’ve had on music!  What I am most impressed by is their embracing the new music revolution, and getting on board with the Creative Commons Licensing agreement.  As a podcaster, I really dig this.  Podcasting News had a bulletin that since NiN is using this format to distribute freely their latest album, “The Slip” , you can OWN a free copy, and share it with your friends! Or, in my case, your Podcast listening audience! 

Without a CC license, we cannot play, distribute, or post any copywritten music without the sincere risk of being sued by the RIAA (Don’t even get me STARTED on THAT rant!)  Musicians that don’t own their copywrites (which is MOST who are on a major label, by the way) are not even able to give us permission to use it in a podcast, no fair use, no way.

With that being said, Kudos to NiN for being ahead of the majority of the artists who think we are all just a bunch of pirates, waiting to steal them blind.  Oh, wait, I’m a different kind of Pirate!