torrentfreak.com — When we reported about the leak of a BuckCherry track last week, and specifically the band?s response to it, we hinted that this could be a covert form of self-promotion. Indeed, after a few days of research we found out that the track wasn?t leaked by pirates, but by Josh Klemme, the manager of the band.
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artfiend77Jul 31, 2008
Looks like they wanted the best of both worlds: The power of good publicity via torrents and the ability to sue anyone who download their music. Who knows how many other artists and bands have done this then had the balls to complain?f**k em, f**k em all I say. they just screwed themselves over BIGTIME. I'd love to show them a disappearing pencil trick.
Closed AccountJul 31, 2008
lame band.
ericandertonJul 31, 2008
By themselves no.With a proper warrant (or sometimes without), an ISP can correlate the time and date with the IP address in question, and correlate that to an account; records from the DHCP service help pinpoint the data. From there its easy to narrow things down to a person or persons living at an address. AFAIK, that's close enough to get a warrant to investigate whatever is at that address, given the nature of the alleged grime (e.g. kiddie porn). I'm not sure what the police do with a piracy tip though.It used to be harder with dialup since you had to take into account the phone number at the other end of the connection. If it wasn't the phone number listed in the account's billing record, it takes substantially more effort to track down a location, and then put the person there - the police would have to do that part. All the other stuff still applies though.Anyway, if the Band Manager were using dialup, then the odds of him getting the same IP address multiple times in a row may be better than you think, given the size of the modem pool. The same theory goes for DHCP allocation of addresses on a cable or DSL network. However, the odds of someone else on the same network segment as he, releasing material for a band that he's intimately involved with, are pretty slim.I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that matters in a Civil Suit clearly put the burden of disproof on Mr. Band guy here. It'll be hard for him to say that he didn't do it, given that he provably corresponded from the IP address that distributed the material, roughly within the same timeframe.
northstategonzoAug 1, 2008
B-E-O-T-C-H-E-S Deserved to Be PWNED!!!
littlefuzzAug 1, 2008
I'm pretty sure it's 'Buckcherry'.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckcherry">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckcherry</a>
zaoyiAug 1, 2008
get real. downloading will not stop and this whole copyright issue surrounding the recording industry is a big 'cry wolf'
isurftoomuchAug 1, 2008
And you think the band doesn't share some complicity here? They have plenty to gain if releasing the song increases CD sales. And besides, the manager works for them, so they, as his employers, are responsible for his actions.
brandiceAug 3, 2008
Band manager = epic fail. What a moron...