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CD on torrent sites before release date

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:37 am
by Basstrup
D&#$ Received copies of CD, overnighted from plant yesterday. However FedEx was beat by pirates!!! The tracks including cover was already on newleakedalbum dot com !!!!

What I have found out so far is:

the site is hosted by linuxpl.com servers in Holland and Germany

domain name is registered by GoDaddy (and don't get me started on that company either)

client account at the hosting company is mattys

site is made with wordpress and ironically includes special plugin for copyrightprotection.

the owner of the website has a google analytics id of UA-53498176-1

and a google adsense account ca-pub-2263129511506796

so Godaddy and Google knows who this is, but of course will not talk.

Only place the leak could potentially happy is a CD plant or Aggregator used to submit to iTunes and such.

So now artist will have to chat with CD plant and Aggregator to see if they have any employee whos name might match "mattys"

but of course this ain't new http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/ ... c-business

Re: CD on torrent sites before release date

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:52 am
by monkey man
Bad luck, Basstrup.

The only positive I can think of is that someone must've figured your work was worth torrenting!

You never know, it could serve you in the long run in terms of publicity / getting your work out there.