trebzon
join:2001-09-03
Grandville, MI | Ooops!
Oops! Got caught did we? |
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knightmb
Everybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
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| Drama Kings/Queens?
At least that was my first thought. If it's true they leaked their own music out, then started a big public outrage about it, only to bring attention to their band; sounds more like a marketing strategy thought up by their manager to me.
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satellite68
join:2007-04-11
Louisville, KY
| Happens all the time
Yawn, every major band out there does this all the time and blames pirates. Buckcherry just got caught with their pants down. (hopefully not behind someone's bushes in the garden...oh wait, they don't work for Verizon...  ) |
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Jonbo298
join:2004-01-12
Council Bluffs, IA
1 edit | This deserves...
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trebzon
join:2001-09-03
Grandville, MI | Ooops!
Got caught did we? That is a bit damaging. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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Re: This deserves...
2006 called. They want their image back. Linked and displayed properly too.  |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Hook, Line, and Sinker
It appears that both Torrent Freak and BBR have fallen for this. I am sure that BuckCherry and their management appreciate the free publicity. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | It was so easy to track.
The RIAA is probably fuming right now. Ha. |
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funchords
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join:2001-03-11
Washington, DC
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Re: Hook, Line, and Sinker
said by battleop  :It appears that both Torrent Freak and BBR have fallen for this. I am sure that BuckCherry and their management appreciate the free publicity. Do you have information to the contrary or are you just not buying it?
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Dspairl
Premium
join:2004-06-09
Norwich, CT
1 edit | lol
"Honestly, we hate it when this s*** happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first," the band is quoted as saying.
Well if this is true, all your fans do have them now |
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX | reply to battleop
Re: Hook, Line, and Sinker
It may be free publicity, but does hearing about this little stunt make you want to buy their albums? |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Me, personally? No, but if I were a fan of BuckCherry I might. |
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happylurk
@look.ca | Never heard of em...
And after I click on the "Post" button, I'll promptly go on with my life and forget they ever existed... "Cherry Coke?" "Cherry Cheesecake?" "Budweiser?" Whaddeva...  |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to funchords
Re: Hook, Line, and Sinker
It's a publicity stunt. As long as people cover this stuff record companies and bands will do it. If they stop covering it they won't do it. It's free advertising. |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to battleop
What needs to happen here with them is a kind of reverse
Streisand Effect. Instead of something that someone wanting
to ban gets more widespread, coverage of their cheap
publicity stunt ought to completely disappear from the Web.
This means torrents, too. 0 seeds and 0 peers and no
web coverage, and everyone will either ignore them or
say "Buckcherry who?"
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Goober
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join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL | What a bunch of Crazy
Bit**es they are . . . |
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james
join:2001-02-26
antarctica
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Re: Hook, Line, and Sinker
So, if a band you liked, released a press statement that they were mad at pirates, and was stupid enough to say that those downloading the song weren't their "fans", that would make you want to buy the new album more?
If any band I liked did that crap, I would make sure they never saw a penny of mine until they did something I approved of to make up for it.
Yeah, I'm only one person, but if enough people stop buying things in response to publicity stunts, or better yet spend even less in response to them, they will stop doing them. |
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ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
| No, publicize it!
If they want publicity, let's give it to them. Except, instead of publicizing their music, let's publicize the fact that these assholes posted their own music online, yet they blamed it on those evil pirates.
This would be like you walking into a store and having the owner hand you something and tell you not to worry about paying for it. Just take it, he says. Then he publicly states that the item was stolen from his store, only to be caught on the security camera videotape handing it to you.
And, in addition to spreading this story far and wide, let's urge everyone who hears about this to do everything in their power to sink their careers. Wipe every single copy of their music off the Net, take down fan sites, and, most importantly of all, don't buy any of their music or other merchandise. Send them back to playing the bar circuit in their hometown.
I don't approve of piracy, but I approve of false accusations of piracy even less, and these jerks need to pay the price for doing that. |
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
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join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY
·Verizon FIOS
 ·Optimum Online
| It's just ONE track..
So who gives a shit, it's not like they are giving the whole damn CD away for free....so piss off Atlantic!
At least this will give fans a taste of what's to come...or what is stopping Buckcherry from setting up a Myspace page with a few listenable tracks? |
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ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL | That's not the point. The point is they leaked the track themselves and blamed it on piracy when they knew damn well that wasn't the case.
Kinda makes you wonder how often tracks are posted by the bands or labels, doesn't it? |
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