U2's New Album Leaks Early Despite 'Private Hearings'
Found on TorrentFreak on Wednesday, 18 February 2009
In order to prevent the full album from leaking before launch, U2 organized 'private hearings' for the press, but these failed. Today, ten hours after the album leaked, downloads on BitTorrent are 100K - and counting.
U2 manager Paul McGuiness has been particularly aggressive in his stance against file-sharers and has suggested that people who share copyrighted files should have their connection to the Internet severed.
Might as well be a PR stunt pulled by U2. The past has proven that putting an album online actually increases sales, so it's only logical that it will be done more often. And if you're so much against P2P in the past, you can't just spin around and be pro-P2P. So, "leak" it.