Comments on: U2′s New Album Leaks Early Despite ‘Private Hearings’

By: DigitalMeme : l’Hebdo #2 | digitalmeme.fr

DigitalMeme : l’Hebdo #2 | digitalmeme.fr — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:08:27 +0000

[...] boulette de l’année ? Selon les gros geeks de TorrentFreak, le site Universal Australia aurait uploader par erreur le dernier U2. Ça serait donc par un ayant [...]

By: Last.fm Sends Your Data to the RIAA « This Week on the Internet

Last.fm Sends Your Data to the RIAA « This Week on the Internet — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:04:16 +0000

[...] buddy, the RIAA, asked Last.fm for its user data in hopes to find users listening to the unreleased U2 album that has been leaked onto BitTorrent [...]

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:48:11 +0000

U2’s New Album Leaks Early Despite ‘Private Hearings’ | TorrentFreak…

A few months ago, four tracks from the upcoming U2 album ‘No Line on the Horizon’ leaked onto the Internet. In order to prevent the full album from leaking before launch, U2 organized “private hearings” for the press, but these failed. Today, t…

By: What I Learned From The Last.fm Rumor at So It’s Come To This:

What I Learned From The Last.fm Rumor at So It’s Come To This: — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:59:37 +0000

[...] the rumor that it had given the RIAA the logs of who listened to U2’s unreleased CD which was leaked onto the internet. The rumor, reported by TechCrunch, was denied by both the RIAA and (several) [...]

By: New Halloween Alaska Record… « Steve Goold

New Halloween Alaska Record… « Steve Goold — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:31:14 +0000

[...] other new album news, the forthcoming release from U2, No Line On The Horizon, was recently leaked through an Australian label subsidiary, and as a result the band has posted the entire record on [...]

By: Beta Alfa » Blog Archive » Noterat 2009-02-23

Beta Alfa » Blog Archive » Noterat 2009-02-23 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:43:15 +0000

[...] U2’s New Album Leaks Early Despite ‘Private Hearings’ | TorrentFreak- Halvgammal nyhet. U2:s nya platta har läckt ut i förtid, trots på snudd till paranoid hantering av materialet. Ljud färdas i luften. Musik färdas på nätet. [...]

By: New Leak On The Horizon - Bono To Destroy Australia? : deathtotraitors

New Leak On The Horizon - Bono To Destroy Australia? : deathtotraitors — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:02:11 +0000

[...] but some piece of shit will still steal $10 bucks out of your pocket… then tell roughly 100,000 of his loser friends how to do the [...]

By: ALemon!

ALemon! — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:07:31 +0000

The RIAA should be told to f-off where ever they appear.
justto make it clear they won’t wreck our lives everyone should just delete all their RIAA backed artists and replace them all with covers by Creative Commons artists. then burn HD DVD mp3 disks to give all their friends. start static web servers on an open wifi network tht connect directly to the machine with the music only. screw-drive the ISPs out of much needed network activity.

By: U2 Album trotz massiver Geheimhaltung via P2P zu haben « 11k2

U2 Album trotz massiver Geheimhaltung via P2P zu haben « 11k2 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:01:09 +0000

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By: Angry At Idiots

Angry At Idiots — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:50:52 +0000

Did U2 screw their fans like many suggest above?How so…

Only people that got screwed were the ones that share a poop nugget as a brain…

Its a leak legit or not…
Not a screw job…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:50:03 +0000

Keep stealing. That way in a few years there will be even less music than there is now to listen to because no one has any use in making it if it’s just going to get stolen. Personally, all you pirates should be locked in a room and made listen to Taylor Swift for a week non-stop. Because that’s all there will be in a few years. Truly creative or enjoyable music won’t be made because the people who make it have to wait tables to pay their bills instead of record.

By: Neues U2 Album im P2P trotz massiver Geheimhaltung | TechFieber | Hot Gadgets. Smart TechNews.

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:06:30 +0000

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?? 2, ?????? ???? ?????? ???????? | ??? ?????, ??????? — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:38:13 +0000

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By: U2: The Unforgettable Embarassment | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:52:13 +0000

[...] only available there for a brief period, but it was time enough for fans to purchase legally. And copies of the record began showing up on torrent indices a short while later. An embarrassing turn of events for a band that had gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent [...]

By: No Line On The Horizon, novo dos U2 já chegou aos sites de BitTorrent | Remixtures

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:45:58 +0000

[...] para 27 de Fevereiro na Irlanda e 2 de Março no resto do mundo. Pelos vistos e segundo os dados do TorrentFreak, mais de cem mil pessoas espalhadas pelo mundo não quiseram esperar tanto tempo e já [...]

By: badu2fan

badu2fan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:47:16 +0000

Well since they will charge 150 for a stadium seat they might as well give the music away for free….

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:36:42 +0000

take that Bono!!!

By: oorski

oorski — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:06:52 +0000

this will actually be in the top 10 albums of all time, i doubt any of u u2 haters have listened to a full track yet

By: sab MUSLIX

sab MUSLIX — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:46:40 +0000

we paying ISP every month for the download and upload.So what the point we cant download.

By: AnotherAnon

AnotherAnon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:45:02 +0000

@72:

Stealing = taking something away.

Pirating = making a copy, leaving the original intact.

YAR HAR

U2 sucks btw

By: brianslade

brianslade — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:46:32 +0000

it was only their manager who is totally against piracy etc. there was no interview from a band member who meant this.

and they aren´t responsible for paul mc guiness.

the leak source was a mistake of a guy universal music guy in australia. there was a fan who was looking around at the getmusic site and first he thought that they offer some new clips of the album. so he listened and after he checked out that it is the full one, he BOUGHT it directly there and a few minutes later he posted this into several U2 fan website forums and the rest we all know what then happened.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:53:00 +0000

I’m downloading because I cant stand the thought of those Irish-Fags getting this the month before I do… but I will ultimately buy it from iTunes on release day because I want apple and u2 to get rich off of this… fuck microsoft… fuck my chemical romance!!!!

By: anon

anon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:46:06 +0000

#2 and #10… if you download and you hate U2… then they get someone who would have never owned a U2 album to own one… and then the terrorists win…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:18:44 +0000

Just curious as to why people think it is ok to steal something?

By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:17:31 +0000

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By: audiophile

audiophile — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:04:40 +0000

I wdnt try to write such kind of music to cd becouse there is great chance to make damage at hardware level.

By: Drewcipher

Drewcipher — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:38:28 +0000

DO NOT SEED THIS

I don’t think U2 leaked this. I think Dr. Evil leaked as a ploy to render the world’s population deaf and dumb.

Normally I’d say seed out of spite but I just listened to this and I don’t want anyone to endure the pain I just did. Gods my head hurts now.

By: /me

/me — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:26:42 +0000

another music album leaked too soon…so what?
sorry bono, i have none of ur cd’s and i am not starting now with it even if it is for free.
not all like that sh*t!

By: Manning laugh

Manning laugh — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:22:04 +0000

Bono is a huge humanitarian, but he’ll sue the SHIT out of you if you download his album :D

Gotta love double sets of morals :D

And oh yeah, it goes without saying, I wouldn’t download this even if I was PAID to do it!

By: pirate G

pirate G — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:57:26 +0000

hehehhe i love the fight over who relessed it everone knows u2.

By: ab

ab — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:39:48 +0000

Here’s what happened… a new user signed up to u2.interference.com and pointed people to listen to sample clips on the getmusic site (which were very long– around 1:45 long). You were able to pre-order the album from there as well. However, someone tried to buy the tracks individually and it worked.

That new user hasn’t been seen since…

By: chuckles

chuckles — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:51:38 +0000

It will be interesting to see how the album sells. Will U2 change their stance on file sharing if it sells well despite the leak? Conversely, if the album sucks and no one buys it, will they blame the leak?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:32:12 +0000

Quotes:
“They leaked the album themselves as ammunition for the anti-piracy lobby. “See, we were as careful as possible and the pirates still managed to STEAL our album! You have to do something to stop all this piracy on the internet!”
Taking a stance against piracy just ensures that more people will pirate your wares out of spite.”

“I wouldn’t listen to U2 because I don’t care for their music, but I’d pirate it just because they’re so against it.”

I read a lot of comments similar to these and you people really don’t know what you’re talking about. U2 have never said anything like that. In fact Edge was one of the greatest advocates for Napster during their lawsuit. but all you retards are probably too young to remember that anyway.

By: the letter U and the numeral 2

the letter U and the numeral 2 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:49:36 +0000

it’s like the negativland debacle all over again.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.01/negativland.html

By: 3 Count: Boxed In | PlagiarismToday

3 Count: Boxed In | PlagiarismToday — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:19:36 +0000

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By: Quaristice

Quaristice — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:06:48 +0000

@45: You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Ever heard of Kid A? The album was leaked on Napster a month before it was supposed to be released, and downloaded millions of times between its leak and its release. Regardless of possibly being Radiohead’s most experimental and offbeat album and having been downloaded so many times, it was their very first album to debut at #1 in the US, and debuted at #1 in Uk, France, Ireland, NZ, and Canada. So what #35 was saying is perfectly legitimate, you’re the one who doesn’t understand what you’re talking about.

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:52:13 +0000

It almost seems like they leaked it themselves to get more publicity.

The power of p2p is amazing, even more if you’re famous like U2.

It took one week for unknown artist ESPSIX to distribute a free album on P2P to +50,000 on FrostWire, he broke all records of previous legal promotions this past week, it’s amazing that U2 got to distribute 100,000 copies in only 10 hours.

Given all the security measures they took, it seems they can only point at themselves for whoever was responsible for leaking it out.

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Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:20:13 +0000

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By: bud

bud — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:52:51 +0000

I didn’t know that many people liked U2. I wouldn’t take it if you could get a free copy from the store.

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:48:10 +0000

Screw U2.

By: chillywilly

chillywilly — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:39:36 +0000

most who say they are the second metallica are retards the manager of u2 wants it to happen not the members or u2 ah fuck it your all retards, except 51

By: @54

@54 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:31:05 +0000

don’t know, perhaps you can burn it on cd and making a gift to someone loving these old men trying to make music

By: RAINMAN

RAINMAN — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:22:35 +0000

Obviously it wasn’t leaked by a journalist. It was leaked from someone at the DVD fab facility. They need to have a copy in order to have it in stores in a week. That’s where 99% of all leaks come from.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:16:49 +0000

Internet: HAI!
Bono: Who the fuck are you?
Internet: I AM IN UR ALBUM STEALIN UR TUNEZ

By: yay

yay — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:09:10 +0000

ok, Iv downloaded it, do i have to listen it too or I can delete this bullshit right away ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:52:28 +0000

@ 23
You seem to be retarded in the face.

By: Mehall.co.cc

Mehall.co.cc — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:35:32 +0000

Lars v2, but with musical talent ;)

(And I’m a Metallica fan!)

By: IrishBrian

IrishBrian — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:34:53 +0000

You know I’m a serious pirate… if it was 200 years ago I would be hung by now….. I feel bad going to bed at night if there isn’t at least three downloads running on my computer…..
….but….
I get really pissed off at the attitude shown by a lot of people in these comments. Isn’t it enough that you’re getting to download the album for free? Do you have to somehow demonize U2 and paint them as some sort of corporate mafia out to exploit and use their fans…. these guys live for their music….releasing a new album is a big deal for them, they sweat blood to get it right and I fully understand that they would be really upset to see it leak early like this….. believe me, this was not done on purpose to get publicity… what a stupid thing to say…. this is U2 for chrissakes… do you think they have a hard time getting attention ?

If you don’t like U2 or Bono then fine but keep the stupid justifications that somehow you’re sticking it to the man, to yourself….

Everyone loves to be an “anarchist” and freedom fighter when it costs themselves nothing…. that’s why I respect the Pirate Bay guys… they walk the walk whereas a lot of people here sit in their bedrooms living out their pathetic fantasies of fighting at the barricades…

-IrishBrian (and yes I did download the album :-) …. but I don’t delude myself…also a Spotify Premium user…..)

By: anon

anon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:18:51 +0000

God I hate Bono, this made my day.
Arrogant twat.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:52:56 +0000

Damn.
I’ll have to buy this album, only to support U2.
I want bono to finish his gold-plated swimming pool