![]() ![]() After pressing the band’s manager for “proof,” TorrentFreak discovered that it came from an search form that returns fake results. ![]() TorrentFreak jumped into the fray, and noticed very few Twitter followers, and almost no YouTube views on the band’s channel, and also began suspecting stuff. In other words, it’s not just unlikely that the band’s work has been shared 100,000 unauthorized times, it’s unlikely that it’s being shared at all. He went out and searched the various torrent search engines/trackers, and even searched Google with the filetype:torrent search and came up with no results. Of course, one curious participant in the debate, Wayne Borean, began to question this press release. The band claimed that its album had been downloaded over 100,000 times, and complained about people “stealing” from them. However, apparently, there was a recent “debate” on that group’s Facebook page about some poor Canadian band (who I’m not going to bother naming, for reasons that should become obvious), who put out a press release claiming that it had “gone platinum,” if unauthorized downloads were counted. We’ve mentioned before the Recording Industry astroturfing site in Canada, called “Balanced Copyright for Canada,” which is about anything but setting up a “balanced” copyright system in Canada. ![]()
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