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    "The Pirate Bay is featuring the Swedish glam rock band “Lamont” on their frontpage. Unlike the major record labels, Lamont recognizes the power of filesharing and they give away their album for free. Not without success, over 100,000 people downloaded their album in less than 24 hours, numbers that other artists can only dream of."

    "Lamont offers their album “Golden Daze” in various formats including MP3, OGG and a lossless FLAC rip. The band also put up the video of their single that can be streamed online or downloaded in a higher quality. Interestingly, the clip is shot at the favorite “garden store” of Brokep, one of the Pirate Bay admins.

    Brokep told TorrentFreak that they love to support bands who are willing to share their music on BitTorrent. We will probably see more projects like this on The Pirate Bay in the future.

    Lamont are of course very excited by all the attention and free publicity their band is getting. They write on their official website: “During the first 24 hours that The Pirate Bay supported us on their site, over 100.000 people have downloaded our entire album! And over 60.000 people have watched our video to ‘The Golden Daze’…on the first day! That’s crazy!”

    Some people might argue that giving away albums for free is a bad idea, but as we’ve shown before, most artists actually profit from sharing (or piracy). A recent study confirms this and shows that people who download more music actually buy more CDs. Besides this, hundreds and thousand of people get to listen to their music, isn’t that what it’s all about?"

    Source: TorrentFreak
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    Last edited by Hairbautt; 11-05-2007 at 01:11 AM.
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