Speaking as someone involved in the music blogging community, it still baffles me how bands send out promos months in advance *to* people like mp3 bloggers and magazine writers and then are shocked when it immediately shows up on zshare, BitTorrent, etc.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Parker Higgins <[email protected]>wrote: > Well, I question whether the files are in fact "cd quality," (if australian > labels sell lossless audio files, we're really getting a raw deal here) but > it still must be quite disappointing for the band. > > Unfortunately, they will certainly blame this leak for any perceived > shortage of sales, and not the fact that the first two singles are pretty > forgettable. > > Parker > > On Feb 20, 2009 4:21 PM, "Fred Benenson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > CD quality DRM-free album leaked: > > > http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/02/upcoming-u2-album-all-over-p2p-after-bands-label-screws-up.ars > > > > > ~ ~ ~ > thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog > work / http://creativecommons.org > sights / http://flickr.com/fcb > sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis > status / http://twitter.com/mecredis > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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