bedeviled mojo slop

via Larry Lessig's blog - NIN's brilliance (my emphasis)

As reported at BoingBoing (thanks John), Trent Reznor of NIN has released a GarageBand wrap of a forthcoming song. The 70 meg download opens directly into GarageBand. The terms of the license (which you've got to accept to play) aren't too bad. Not the share-cropper culture (the star owns the remixes) that the lawyers for some icons have insisted upon (Mr. Bowie, e.g.) -- NIN permits sharing of the remixes, though not for commercial purposes. Would be very cool, however, were the expressions of freedom expressible in a machine-readable form, and in a license that others could combine other content with, say, in a friendster-like application made for music.

Oh, and the 172 (as of now) remixes of The Hand That Feeds seem to suggest that you can in fact share your remixes.

As I said before, I basically worked with the constructs of the original song. It's the same length. I used the instruments, loops, and vocals from the track. I think it captures aspects of the song I wanted to see broken down, emphasized, removed, etc. Nothing fancy. I'm happy with it.

Finally a thank you to Trent Reznor.

Listen to The Hand That Feeds (Penitent).