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5 Ways to Stop Album Leaks

By soulxtc

Advice for music industry execs who complain about it, but never seem to be willing to do anything tangible about it. For the file-sharing community, BitTorrent in particular, courtesy of tracker sites like Waffles and What, leaked albums have been a mainstay of available content. Rock legend Bruce Sprinsgteen and his "Working on a Dream" album was the most recent artist to suffer from the phenomenon. Many artists have watched their albums appear online ahead of their scheduled release dates, but few, if any, have asked themselves why it happened and how it can be addressed. More importantly, their record labels, their supposed "partners" in the music biz, also have failed to adequately address the problem.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).