time honored, indeed. When my father visited Germany in the early nineties, he found a surprising number of english speaking germans who could perfectly recite the lyrics to "rapper's delight," because it was something they had to learn in English class.

This guy was a huge NIN fan who ran a ginormous collector site, and took it to the next level by posting his collection in just about every reasonable format available. Three or four audio formats, two or three video formats. I warned him that was going to attract the wrong attention, and sure enough he was busted by Universal AU for distributing copyrighted material.

Besides fining the shit out of him, they reclaimed all of the promotional CDs and videos he had amassed over the years. It really sucked, but he was kind of stupid to openly host the entire Nine Inch Nails audio and video collection, free for the download.

So yeah, those labels on promo CDs? Not entirely empty threats.