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Upcoming U2 Album All Over P2P After Band’s Label Screws Up

[via ars]

U2′s yet-to-be-released album, No Line on the Horizon, is already available on P2P networks across the Internet thanks to a leak that the band is always so adamantly working to prevent. Considering U2′s views on piracy and Safe Harbor, the leak is both poetic justice and confirmation of the band’s fears.

What’s the worst thing that could happen to a band that is adamantly pro-DRM and anti-filesharing? Having an unreleased album leaked all over the Internet, of course, and by one of the Big Four labels to boot. U2′s upcoming album, No Line on the Horizon, is slated for release on March 3, but it’s already available on numerous filesharing sites and P2P networks thanks to the accidental posting of the album by Universal’s Australian branch.

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