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To: The Antiyuppie

Perhaps but that’s not the point she herself is making.

She is speaking strictly of her emotional, hyperbolic reaction.

As was the case with the Sony breach, they are seeking to affix blame everywhere but with the fault of those whose lax security measures allowed such breaches. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure where intellectual property is concerned. If Madonna is a cold eyed businesswoman per her reputation then she has missed a trick here.


46 posted on 12/22/2014 10:20:05 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: relictele

According to the Guardian, she released them to iTunes Saturday and has sold numerous units:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/21/madonna-album-hack-living-state-terror

On Saturday, Madonna unexpectedly released six tracks from Rebel Heart on iTunes, following the leak of the unfinished songs earlier in the week: the album itself is not due for release until March. She immediately reached No 1 in the iTunes chart in 36 countries, a situation she described as a miracle...

Last year, Kanye West’s keenly anticipated album Yeezus appeared in full online in advance of its release, ironically four hours after the website buzzfeed.com published a feature detailing the painstaking security around the album – which apparently included storing the music on a hard drive in an airtight, watertight case that could withstand the impact of a plane crash or tsunami – under the headline 8 Reasons You Won’t Hear Yeezus Early.

But Madonna suggested the leak of her demos differed from previous security breaches – frequently traced back to employees of record companies or recording studios – because other non-musical material appeared online at the same time...


61 posted on 12/22/2014 11:40:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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