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Posted in music on March 2, 2006
'Pre-Release Pirates Face The Music'
"Federal authorities in Washington, D.C., have secured the first guilty pleas for copyright infringement in four cases where the perpetrators made music available on the Internet before it was released to the general public.....The supply of prerelease music often was provided by music industry insiders -- such as radio DJs, employees of music magazine publishers, workers at CD-manufacturing plants and retailers who frequently receive advance copies of music.
'The illegal prerelease distribution of albums or individual tracks takes an especially heavy toll on the music community,' RIAA executive vp anti-piracy Brad Buckles said. "After months or even years working on an album, prerelease theft undercuts the ability of artists to sell their music before it even hits the market." [Billboard]
Posted on March 2, 2006 4:39 PM
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Brad Buckles? Can that name be real?
Posted by Anonymous | March 2, 2006 4:45 PM
So I guess I should put the new Radiohead album up.
Posted by musicsnobbery | March 2, 2006 5:07 PM
And I'll put up the rest of Chinese Democracy.
Posted by Steve | March 2, 2006 5:19 PM
i'll put up naked pics of my mom
Posted by c | March 2, 2006 6:14 PM
this is such horse shit. "prerelease theft undercuts the ability of artists to sell their music before it even hits the market." yeah right...like all the internet-ing of Arctic Monkeys stuff killed their albums sales.
Posted by EAR FARM | March 2, 2006 6:19 PM
wait...people still buy records?
Posted by cranky | March 3, 2006 9:27 AM
"this is such horse shit. "prerelease theft undercuts the ability of artists to sell their music before it even hits the market." yeah right...like all the internet-ing of Arctic Monkeys stuff killed their albums sales."
While I'm not on their side, pre-releases of relatively unknown bands(at the time) is obviously going to help. But when an established band's album gets put online, it will rarely help, especially if it's worse then their previous releases.
Posted by Trevor | March 3, 2006 8:00 PM