So this morning, I performed my usual checks on various projects we have running. One of the things I do is check up on sites where we've found links to illegal downloads of our music and see if anything has changed. (I'm in the process of fully automating this.) Anyway, it turns out that one "blogger" didn't get the message when I sent takedown notices to all the sites he had hosting downloads. This one is particularly pernicious because he's not only uploaded one of our new releases, but he's uploaded an ultra-limited new release from a series we just don't make much money on at all (because it's limited and because the pricing is quite low), but still do because we love it. Anyway, he's now gone and uploaded the release again and I've had to re-issue takedown notices for everything.
It's not like the poster even reviewed the release or created anything of his own. He just copied the release text that I wrote, pasted it into his blog, and linked to the actual release he uploaded elsewhere.
I get really angry about this because it ruins the limited nature of the release, and makes it harder for us to be able to afford doing the series. I know that people look for the illegal downloads first because on our last release from this series, the first searches that landed on our site were all "release +filesharingsite" searches. So before many people even look for a legitimate way of getting the music (which in this case, they've very, very likely heard live), they're looking to download it for "free".
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