The Internet release will include an interview with Mr. Tan and audio clips from the work.
The younger Assad, an apparently mild and enlightened man with an interest in the Internet, released hundreds of political prisoners and took steps to encourage private investment.
But it is for this group at this point in time: its audience responded rapturously to last year's pay-what-you-wish Internet release of "In Rainbows".
Consider what happened last year when the Motion Picture Association, addressing the issue of who controls the Internet released a statement to the news media saying that studios were "not proponents" of government regulation of the Web.
Ahead of an internet release that's already got the goat of major US theatre chains, Netflix and the Weinstein Company release their followup to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in cinemas in China.
More recent releases have symbolised an unstoppable ascent up his own arse: last year he knocked out an internet release called NEWS: four tracks, entitled North, East, West and South, each of which lasted precisely 14 minutes.
In 1971, Bob Thomas, an engineer working for Bolt, Beranek and Newman, the Boston company that had the contract to build the Arpanet, the precursor of the internet, released a virus called the "creeper" on to the network.
In late 2010, Pew Internet released a report called "Rise of the Apps Culture".
In an extraordinary move IBM disclosed hundreds of Cell's design secrets on the Internet, releasing a developer's guide that 10,000 programmers have since downloaded.
Pew Internet released a study today that determined specific pros and cons of using digital technology in classrooms.
