Talk About Rock Music

In a bid to keep their music in album form rather than individual single sales and to prevent illegal downloads, AC/DC have refused to sell their new album, Black Ice,  online.  So what has happened?  Someone has managed to get a copy of the album, load it to BitTorrent and share the album online with over 400,000 illegal downloads.

The Sony super legal team have managed to pull the album off the unlawful site and removed it from YouTube but the copies are already out there.

The strategy that AC/DC have put in place for all their music to be sold in store only seems to have had a good effect with their album sales increasing over the last 5 years.

The band still have a smile on their face though.  Sony flooded the illegal peer to peer sites with fake songs when the news was released but studies show that the public are more likely to buy the album if they have heard songs from it than people who have not heard anything from it at all.

So who knows what the future holds about music downloads.  Maybe bands should release the songs on their own websites as sample tracks so fans can hear what they are buying or maybe nothing at all will happen but the authorities are clamping down on all the people breaking the law so be warned!!