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"Bands that have risen to fame heavily due to Internet promotion and free sharing of their music are turning to services like Web Sheriff to fight illegal sharing of their music. File-sharing has changed security measures around unreleased recordings dramatically. For example, for music writers to hear an advance recording to the Artic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare album must go to their London HQ to hear it.

Bloc Party, a London quartet indie band tipped to emulate Radiohead's global success, has a huge scare when a copy of their second album, A Weekend in the City, leaked three months before its scheduled release. The band's record company, V2, hired Web Sheriff to fight the spread of the illegal copy around the Internet.

"They were looking at up to one million illegal MP3 song files spreading of an album which was supposed to break the band internationally." John Giacobbi, Web Sheriff managing director, said. The company tracked down uploaders of the music through their ISPs and sent them threatening letters demanding that the sharing cease. "

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"Bands that have risen to fame heavily due to Internet promotion and free sharing of their music are turning to services like Web Sheriff to fight illegal sharing of their music."

Last year it was free publicity. This year it's illegal. If it's illegal, I don't want it.

"They were looking at up to one million illegal MP3 song files spreading of an album which was supposed to break the band internationally."

That's a long damn album.

Arctic Monkeys = Metallica redux

Enjoy your upcoming obscurity.

" .....The company tracked down uploaders of the music through their ISPs and sent them threatening letters demanding that the sharing cease..... "

Alrighty, then. LIstening to the music will probably cease as well.

"The company tracked down uploaders of the music through their ISPs and sent them threatening letters demanding that the sharing cease."

Yeah, that'll do it. Now, if we can only track down that one monkey - then we would be able to stop the spread of AIDS.

You can't have both ways boys. Either file sharing is good for your career or it's bad. Which is it? When your trying to make a name it's good, but if you think it will cost you money it's bad?
And where do these numbers come from anyway? 325M in estimated losses. How do you estimate what hasn't happened?
Can you guarantee that the album wouldn't have gone gold if they didn't stop the leak? They used to call that advertising.

heh Flashback to 1982...
she came over to my house with a box of ten brand new TDK cassette tapes. she wuz at the party I threw when I bought my one thousandth LP before. She filled her cassette tapes, tripped my trigger, and smoked all my stash. A few days later Im hangin at her place, she didnt own a single album, just hundreds of tapes.... she wasnt ever gonna buy an LP, just copy her friends'. She's still a music fan, goes to concerts, buys T shirts and shtuff.
Moral of the story: not every file shared is a lost sale.
arrrgh that pirate had a nice booty too
The files shared the most seem to be the music that sells the most also. Bands that bitch the most seem to be the ones boycotted the most.

Yes, many people will download music for free, but true followers of any band will insist on paying for it. Filesharing is simply a great medium to sell your music.

It takes years to earn fans and only SECONDS to lose them.

"Bands that have risen to fame heavily due to Internet promotion and free sharing of their music are turning to services like Web Sheriff to fight illegal sharing of their music. "

What a hypocrite! Well, go ahead and BITE that hand that fed you. You'll soon find out that there will be NO MORE FOOD for you.

Seems to me some of us here kind of
saw the Arctic Monkeys as a very clever
RIAA backed pseudo indy ploy from the
very beginning, so this comes as little
surprise to a few here.
Be very aware of who is really backing
the supposed 'independent' group.