Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates 243
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."
That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* (Score:5, Funny)
Uh... (Score:2, Funny)
When the hard rock band "BuckCherry"
I don't know about you, but I don't want them bucking my cherry. *puts on chastity belt*
Viral Marketing for Dummies (Score:5, Funny)
Example found in the chapter: What NOT to do.
Re:Stands to reason (Score:4, Funny)
Let's get this out of the way... (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't RTFA, but I for one welcome our new, naked Natalie Portman and grits overlords, to which CmdrTaco replied, "you must be new here." He's a Twitter sock-puppet, but so am I, you insensitive clod! In Soviet Russia, the only way to be sure is for orbit to nuke you with a beowulf cluster (yes, it runs Linux!). ??? Profit!
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Re:Uh... (Score:3, Funny)
Several years ago, a friend of mine was reading a musical artist with "awards" for the year. "Worst name of the year" award went to "Cherry Popping Daddies." My friend asks me "What's so bad about that name?" And then I had to explain to him what the name could imply... he agreed it was, in fact, a bad name.
This makes a lot of sense (Score:5, Funny)
So basically, either none of their fans use the internet, their definition of "first" is different than mine, or they inhabit some sort of crazy universe with non-linear time.
I think they were "Too Drunk...." when they wrote this press release.
Sounds like the manager isn't a fan (Score:1, Funny)
They never blamed pirates. They merely stated that they like their fans to get first cuts.
Re:Stands to reason (Score:5, Funny)
Don't download it either, sucks when people don't even want your stuff for free!
Up Until... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uh... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stands to reason (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly. All mods should know about all unknown songs by all unknown bands!
Re:Stands to reason (Score:5, Funny)
Show the band how you support such underhanded tactics by making sure that you never buy any of their albums.
Huh? You can buy music? :P
Oblig. Zen Question (Score:1, Funny)
"Hard rock"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let's get this out of the way... (Score:5, Funny)
You forgot that email is for old South Koreans.
I think (Score:5, Funny)
They are basically using a silly sort of reverse logic. They want to leak the song, because they know it'll generate more interest. However they are worried if they do, that people will choose to download it and then not buy it. So they then come up with the idea that "Hey, we'll pretend like we didn't leak it and hate on those that did. That'll shame the fans in to buying it!" After that the discussion was probably something along the lines of "Fuck yeah I am a philosophy logic ninja MASTER! Pass the bong man."
Re:This makes a lot of sense (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let's get this out of the way... (Score:4, Funny)
I didn't RTFA, but I for one welcome our new, naked Natalie Portman and grits overlords, to which CmdrTaco replied, "you must be new here." He's a Twitter sock-puppet, but so am I, you insensitive clod! In Soviet Russia, the only way to be sure is for orbit to nuke you with a beowulf cluster (yes, it runs Linux!). ??? Profit! Mod Parent Up!! There, fixed that for ya :-)
I am trying to condense Slashdot down to a fine extract. Anyone else want to see if they can perfect it?
Re:That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* (Score:5, Funny)
You mean mARRRketing.
Re:Wikipedia edits (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stands to reason (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Up Until... (Score:3, Funny)
I don't want to do business with a company or people who try to cheat me.
Tried that. Wound up naked living in a hole subsisting on juniper berries. Then some bastards stole all the berries.
Let me fix that for ya... (Score:5, Funny)
"Honestly, we hate it when this s*** happens, because we want our FAN to have any new songs first."
Re:Stands to reason (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Let me fix that for ya... (Score:3, Funny)
That's why you're supposed to refer to her as "the fan base".
Re:That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* (Score:5, Funny)
Next week's news: the involvement of the band's manager to the leakage wasn't revealed by TorrentFreak but by the band's marketing director.