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Neil Young, who released his anti-Bush album online a week before it hit retail channels.







Bono, who along with Bobby Shriver, founded (PRODUCT) RED to develop original products, such as a special edition Motorola SLVR cell phone, donating proceeds to the Global Fund to fight AIDS.









Chuck D/Public Enemy, for posting free MP3 music files on its Web site at a time when the recording industry was mounting a fierce legal battle against file sharing. Last year, Public Enemy an early adopter of wireless phone networks to distribute music, making music from its album, New Whirl Odor, available on cell phones.







U2, who along with Apple with the released a second band-branded iPod digital music player.







Prince, for being the first major performer to release an exclusively online album with his 1997 Crystal Ball.



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David Bowie, who owns his own Internet service provider, BowieNet.







Moby, for advocating ‘Net-neutrality’.







DJ Danger Mouse, for his infamous 2004 music mash-up from two best-selling LPs: the vocals of Jay-Z’s Black Album overlaid on beats from The Beatles seminal White Album.









Franz Ferdinand, for whom Sony released a limited edition Franz Ferdinand MP3 player, the NW-A1000.







Lupe Fiasco, for making two of his songs — Kick Push and Just Might Be OK, available nearly two months before the tracks’ appearance on the retail album.



Via: Business Week