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Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates

Posted by Soulskill on from the building-your-own-soapbox dept.

A Cow writes "When the hard rock band Buckcherry found out their latest single had leaked on BitTorrent, they didn't try to cover it up or take the file down. No, instead, they issued a press release. After a bit of research, TorrentFreak found out the track wasn't leaked by pirates, but by Josh Klemme, the manager of the band. In an attempt to cover their tracks, the press release was pulled, but it's still available through Reuters and Google's cache."

4 of 243 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Who does the RIAA represent? by Pincus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is the manager technically represented by the RIAA or is he simply an employee of the band represented by it? If he doesn't fit into the RIAA hierarchy officially, they would be best served to go after him. After all, haven't we decided it's best to go after the drug producers and major dealers instead of the runners and users?

  2. Wikipedia edits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the article: "It turns out that the uploader, a New York resident, had only uploaded one torrent, the BuckCherry track. When we entered the IP-address into the Wiki-scanner, we found out that the person in question had edited the BuckCherry wikipedia entry, and added the name of the band manager to another page."

    Well, a certain person, who has coincidentally both edited the BuckCherry page, and added a name to a radio station page, has also added a couple of questionable contributions.

  3. Re:That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* by PJ+The+Womble · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Surely the band's manager is their agent, legally speaking?

    If that's the case, then if the band are the copyright holders of their own work (a fairly safe assumption) and their agent is making it available in the public domain, I'd have thought it legal to download.

    No black mark there. I'll be looking out for it on BitTorrent, as they've granted me the right to peruse the download link, I presume.

  4. Following the script of "The Heavenly Kings" by 6350' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This band seems to be following the script of the semi-movie-semi-mockumentary Hong Kong film "The Heavenly Kings," in which the band decides to upload their main song to P2P networks, then complain of the leak in a press release as a method of getting coverage, hype, and attention.

    Never was quite clear just how much of the film is real, and how much is fictional (the actors in the movie did in fact start a cheezy boy band, as depicted in the film, and seemed to, on one hand, draw inspiration for the film from their experiences, at the very least).

    Anyhoo, the second I read the blrb, I instantly realized these guys have probably watched the film in question.

    http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/heavenly_kings.htm