From the mb: More and more more artists are discovering the benefits of our free Content Distribution (CD) service. Silence is Sexy is the first Dutch rock band to release their complete new album this way. ‘This Ain’t Hollywood’ is a must-download if you are into bands like Radiohead, Editors, Coldplay and Interpol.

An increasing number of music producers see that giving away their content for free is the right way to build a fan-base. These producers are often using Mininova CD to distribute their content to a broad audience. Nowadays more than 750 publishers are actively using Mininova CD to publish content.

By the way, the Silence is Sexy’s first album is also available at our Content Distribution service. We hope a lot more artists will follow this example!

I'm listening to it right now. Regardless of how it turn out I am happy that more and more bands are choosing to distribute their music through the Nine Inch Nails model or a similar one, which has been proven to be the right one. It's pointless to fight against free distribution and sharing of music, it is instead more intelligent to embrace a new model, one which can accomplish commercial success and love for the community, seizing the distributing and looking at it as positive externalities. People do share things, ideas, emotions and therefore music. It's a good thing, it's a sane process that depicts a vibrant community willing to share knowledge. The money comes from different sources, Trent Reznor gave a possible solution, but it's not the only one. In these days of evolving technology also the very ideas of copyright, intellectual property, property itself are under discussion. We should be able to understand that and find out what we can accomplish.

It's a journey I am excited to embark.