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."
Re:Stands to reason (Score:1, Informative)
To the douchebag that modded this person down, Crazy Bitch is a name of a Buckcherry song. Slashdot mods - new levels of stupidity every day.
Press release (Score:2, Informative)
NEW YORK, NY, Jul 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
Eleven Seven Music/Atlantic recording group Buckcherry has announced
early details of its hugely anticipated fourth album, "BLACK BUTTERFLY."
The album -- which follows 2006's RIAA platinum-certified blockbuster,
"15" -- arrives in stores at all digital retailers on September 16th.
"Too Drunk...," a featured track from "BLACK BUTTERFLY," recently appeared
online at a number of BitTorrent sites. Buckcherry has released an
official statement regarding the song's unscheduled arrival, declaring,
"Honestly, we hate it when this s*** happens, because we want our FANS to
have any new songs first."
In response to the leak, the band quickly cut "a down and dirty video" for
"Too Drunk..." which can be viewed on www.Buckcherry.com. With its sexy,
slinky groove, "Too Drunk..." offers a new facet to Buckcherry's trademark
hard-rocking sonic approach. "I just wanted something that was funky,"
notes lead singer Josh Todd, "so we all collaborated on it and turned it
into something with a lot of space to breeze along and tell a story."
"BLACK BUTTERFLY" is now available for preorder via www.Buckcherry.com.
Fans who preorder the Limited Edition Fan Pack will receive the track "Too
Drunk..." at the time of their preorder. The ringtone for the track is
also available on the band's website. The album -- co-produced by longtime
Aerosmith collaborator Marti Frederiksen (the co-writer of Buckcherry's
top 10 smash, "Sorry") and Buckcherry's own Keith Nelson -- will be
offered in a standard CD package; a "Limited Fan Club Edition" version,
which comes with bonus tracks and a one-year membership to the Buckcherry
Fan Club; and a "Limited Fan Club Edition" bundle which adds a "BLACK
BUTTERFLY" T-shirt to the previous package. For more information, visit
www.Buckcherry.com.
The newly updated www.Buckcherry.com also features the "BLACK BUTTERFLY"
album art, as well as links and information regarding the band's current
role in this summer's "Cruee Fest." The just-underway North American tour
sees Buckcherry lighting up stages all summer long as part of a
multi-artist bill which also includes Moetley Cruee, Papa Roach, SIXX:
A.M., and Trapt (see below itinerary).
True road warriors, Buckcherry will follow "Cruee Fest" with a full-scale
co-headline tour alongside Avenged Sevenfold, slated to kick off in
mid-September, running through the beginning of October. (See below for
announced dates; additional dates to be announced at a later date.)
Buckcherry was featured in a recent Billboard cover story which declared
the Los Angeles-based band to be "a platinum-plated redemption story,
years in the making." Powered by four enormously successful multi-format
hit singles, "15" firmly established Buckcherry's status as America's
preeminent hard rock outfit. "Crazy Bitch" -- the album's Grammy
Award-nominated first single -- caused a radio riot upon its 2006 release,
reaching #2 at Mainstream Rock and #3 at Active Rock. A string of further
rock and alternative radio hits followed, including "Next 2 You,"
"Everything," and the CHR/Top 40 crossover smash, "Sorry." The singles
have all blown up online, with cumulative digital sales now approaching 1
million. In addition, "Crazy Bitch" spent over a year in the Nielsen
RingScan Top 30 -- the only track to do so in the chart's history. The
track has since been certified as a Platinum Master Ringtone by the RIAA.
What's more, Buckcherry spent nearly two full years on the road,
performing more than 300 live shows in support of "15." A full-scale
headline tour behind "BLACK BUTTERFLY" will be announced shortly.
Buckcherry is: Josh Todd - vocals * Keith Nelson - guitar * Jimmy Ashhurst
- bass * Stevie D. - guitar * Xavier Muriel - drums.
For additional information, please visit www.buckcherry.com
and
www.myspace.com/
Re:License To Download (Score:2, Informative)
sounds to me like they implicitly gave everyone a copyright license to download it.
What the hell?
You need to learn what a copyright is. Just because something is free doesn't mean no one has rights over it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright [wikipedia.org]
In fact copyrights are used to determine "who is not given rights" over the certain material, and that is decided by the exclusive owner. While p2p doesn't "intellectually" copy something, it does physically copy it. This comes down to stuff the RIAA argued over; whether loading an mp3 into memory is essentially copyright infringement.
So I assume what you meant is that they implicitly loosened the limitations of their copyright - when you purchase something you don't get any license; you simply lack limitations set on you by the copyright owners when it comes to physical ownership, hence not "infringing" it.
This is all based on me reading up a little of copyright law, so if i misunderstood a part of it please correct me.
Re:Let's get this out of the way... (Score:3, Informative)
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!
I am trying to condense Slashdot down to a fine extract. Anyone else want to see if they can perfect it?
You need to work in the frequently referenced pasty-white-parents'-basement-dwelling-virgin stereotype there somewhere.
Re:That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* (Score:5, Informative)
That word “public domain” doesn't mean what you think it means. Public domain refers to stuff that is not under copyright. Just because the Linux kernel is available for free from kernel.org (and countless other places), doesn't mean it is in the “public domain.” It doesn't even necessarily mean that you have the right to download it, either.
Re:Let's get this out of the way... (Score:3, Informative)
I'd like to add:
OMG Ponnies!
and:
[Insert favourite flying chair Ballmer joke]
Bullshit (Score:3, Informative)
Re:That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* (Score:5, Informative)
BuckCherry likely own the rights to the words and music (assuming they wrote same), but if their recording contract is like 99% of them, the record label has the rights to the recordings.
Putting it in general terms... if you're a band with a typical contract, you can perform your songs live, print the lyrics, re-record them (once your exclusive recording deal is up), but you CANNOT distribute the recordings without the record label's permission.
"No black mark there. I'll be looking out for it on BitTorrent, as they've granted me the right to peruse the download link, I presume."
If you want to pirate it, just pirate it. Your rationalization, while unintentionally fallacious, is fallacious all the same.
Re:That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* (Score:3, Informative)
Bzzzt, nope. At least in the U.S., the law says that the copyright owner is the only one who has permission to make copies of their work. So yes, you are allowed to download copies (since the copyright owner is the one who's facilitating that), but no, you're not allowed to redistribute it.
You don't use the term "license" unless there's an actual legal blurb that modifies standard copyright. If there's no such blurb, it's legally covered under standard copyright. Whatever the judge thinks, that doesn't change the law.
(yes, bit torrent does, at a technical level, involve redistribution of the file by peers... from a legal standpoint, either 1) copyright law would gloss over this as it does in-RAM copies, or 2) it would say that end users are still prohibited from redistributing it, unless the copyright owner explicitly distributes their work under something other than standard copyright)
Re:Let's get this out of the way... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* (Score:3, Informative)
But with Bittorrent, you *have to* redistribute.
With HTTP its not required.
Re:Stands to reason (Score:5, Informative)
Re:That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* (Score:3, Informative)
Bull.
There is a specific exception for "caching only" both in US and EU law. See 512(b) of the DMCA [copyright.gov] and Article 13 of Directive 2000/31/EC [europa.eu]