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\"\"Music Ally<\/a> has reported that over 445,000 people illegally downloaded the new U2 album. All these downloaded were alleged to happen between the 18th of February till the 3rd of March from BitTorrent sites.<\/p>\n

The chart supplied by the company shows the spike in downloads following the album\u2019s leak in February, apparently due to it being accidentally made available for sale on an Australian digital music store ahead of its official release on 2nd March.<\/p>\n

The debate is always would these people have purchased the album if it wasn’t leaked on BitTorrent clients? No one can really answer that question, but I’m sure that certain sales would have happened because of this.<\/p>\n

Overall this does make me think that the claims<\/a> of the Pirate Bay in the last couple weeks that “80 percent of all their torrents are legal”, cant be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Music Ally has reported that over 445,000 people illegally downloaded the new U2 album. All these downloaded were alleged to happen between the 18th of February till the 3rd of March from BitTorrent sites. The chart supplied by the company shows the spike in downloads following the album\u2019s leak in February, apparently due to it being accidentally made available for sale on an Australian digital music store ahead of its official release on 2nd March. The debate is always would these people have purchased the album if it wasn’t leaked on BitTorrent clients? 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