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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."

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  1. Not as bad as movie stars. by Sybert42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Movies deal in 100% artificial scarcity--they don't even have technical support! At least music acts generally tour.