Very interesting.. - David Gross

...wow. just WOW! not a NIN follower myself, but Reznor's response here could make me one on general principle alone. also wow: apple now sits in a position where it can decide the morality of popular music...unbelievable. - .LAG liked that

Give 'em hell Trent! - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

LAG, was thinking the same thing. Not that they had any problem before, but their following is going to skyrocket. Its a pisser though that they removed the song. I have to fault them for giving in. - jcunwired

Reznor is awesome. Love the don't take shit from anyone attitude. - Mark Krynsky

Tell them how lame they are! - MiniMage & your pedestal

Reznor is a musical genius (for the un-initiated). The irony here is that he's been a long-time Mac evangelist. I'm hoping he sees now that Apple is no different than MS, except they've created a cooler image and have a lot of mindless followers. Go FLOSS. Be happy. - Chris Spizzirri

When Trent and company drop Pro Tools / Logic on Apple's Mac for something like Linux running Ardour http://ardour.org/ then we'll see some serious shizzle. I still vividly recall playing with the GarageBand files he put out there years ago. - Jay Cuthrell from email

Hats off to Trent! Why do people continue to support Apple and their draconian ways? I really wish others would stand up to Apple like Trent did. - Alyx

Apple's policy doesn't make any sense. Right now, on iTunes, I can buy 'questionable content', the album The Downward Spiral. I can even buy the video of Closer. - Paul Grav

I totally think Trent has a point and the right to be upset. However, it's sounds to me much more like some lowly guy in an office who has made a bad decision, rather than some big apple "policy" thing - i.e. someone applying a policy without a clue. - John Collis

@John. Do you think that there may have been the possibility of 'lowly guy in a office' escalating the issue and management making decision. That would make more sense from a PR perspective. If I were the 'lowly guy in an office' I certainly would have escalated the decision as I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for an Apple PR shit-storm. - Paul Grav

Ah I do love it when people take on companies like Apple for the right reasons. - tech pops

@Paul. Anything's possible, it just strikes me that this is similar to what happened with other apps in the appstore like one of the twitter apps (can't remember which) was blocked because whoever reviewed it saw some language on twitter that was "offensive". In that case it was quickly resolved. This just sounds very similar. As for whether decisions get escalated, I don't know; they're probably seeing a heck of a lot of apps per day from what I've seen. I doubt that there'd be many rejections escalated to PR or else PR would be drowning in them I'd guess. Who knows, it all sounds rather silly and childish anyway. - John Collis

John- exactly - anna sauce