O MY GOD! Wait, wait, rap culture is retarted. Sorry i forgot for a second. Thats just a waist of bandwidth. This is such a common occurence now that im supprised it made headlines.

Damn you people are turning against 50 cent....in the words of the not me...."stop hatin' foo!"

Yeah I like rock and harcore trance....so w/e :P

This is happening sooo often lately, its getting funny.
I was able to download Black Sabbath's new album, as well as the new Judas Priest for some friends weeks ago. Why does the worst music (ie: 50 Cent, Eminem) get the publicity?

Shh...Dela thinks nerds care about Hip-hop... :P

actually...many do hahahaha

yes...very very sad

no such thing as bad publicity as they say :)

wow.. this is like OMG SUCH BIG NEWS!!!

it happens with EVERY SINGLE RECORD RELEASED. WOWZORS!

hey, look at it this way... it might not be be big news (cuz yeah, leaks are so common now) but at least it lets people know the leak it out there to download it. im not into rap but its so mainstream now that news of the leak is bound to send thousands of kiddies searching the net for this leak they might not have otherwise thought to look for.

@Tedronai, Ye as I mentioned I said in the news, "and nobody is one bit surprised". However, the last time an Interscope rap album leaked this early and was so anticipated, it started a war of words and brought that albums release date forward by a matter of weeks because they feared a huge loss in sales after the album was actually released.

@MXGzX, I dont really see AfterDawn as the home of "Major news items", the news is written for members who are interested, and that is why it's written on the site, just like the leak of games early like when Halo 2 or GTA: San Andreas leaked, we just mention it a couple of days before all the worlds newspapers start writing it and of course, the software companies/record labels make heated comments.

@mattF099, same as above....

@daemonzx6, finally a "legit" question. Simple mate because Eminem was so vocal about his opposition to P2P, even though he's already very rich, and has been only for a matter of years. So for guys who like money better than fans it's sometimes nice to read that their new "masterpieces" have leaked onto the Internet before they even went on sale, isnt it? ;-)

@MXGzX, LOL!!! Im not a big 50 Cent/Eminem fan either mate. I might like a few songs here and there, I just think all the tough guy look has been done over and over and over again and needs to die.

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Final Note
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To all who seem to be bitching that this news was written....

I write news here for people who are interested (and judging by the traffic to news items, they are interested), so I don't have to explain the motivation behind writing something, just because it's about something that "happens all the time". RIAA lawsuits happen all the time and with all the news about the RIAA suing another gazillion P2P users, nobody has ever complained that "it happens all the time, it shouldn't be news". Maybe YOU know about the leak of copyrighted works online all the time before everyone else, but you forget there's millions of news readers around who have no clue that it actually happens and those same people seem to love reading this stuff (just look at the way some of the other news articles are worded, for example, after eminem leak one site said, "The leak of the Eminem album was blamed on an illegal download website called RNS" - It proves that NO not EVERYONE knows how all this seems to work).

So basically, if you don't like the news, it's not my problem. Oh and please, try to make useful news comments, nobody needs to know how leet you are, just because you know how to use a BitTorrent site or know how to request from an XDCC bot. That's not exactly something to have a big ego about, now, is it?

Dela..forget about it...good news reporting...keep up the good work.

Dela don't sweat it.
It's news and you reported it.
Thank you and keep up the good work.

heh :-) I'm not worried mate, thnx! If I wrote something to offend someone I'd rather they PM me about it like, and if I wrote something that people don't like, then why comment on it?

And for anyone who says the all too familiar thing - "You shouldn't report this because it alerts the entertainment industry and anti-piracy organisations etc.." here's some things they need to know.

If AfterDawn reports the 50 Cent album leak as a news story, it doesn't change anything. If AfterDawn reports it and you download and share it, depending on your location you may get sued. If AfterDawn DOESN'T report it and you download and share it, depending on your location you may get sued. It doesn't change a thing at all because Interscope don't wait for AfterDawn headlines to tell them if an album leaks, they have people PAID to do this. Yes i mean that, you can actually get a job just tracking files on P2P networks, torrent files on BT sites and even bots on IRC. So the fact that this was written on AfterDawn doesn't really mean anything, you are not more or less likely to run into legal trouble while downloading the album. If you want to give out about a site reporting releases, then give out to vcdquality or nforce or something, they do the same thing, only on a bigger scale, but no you dont give out to them (and you shouldnt since they are not really doing anything wrong either, just providing a service). Or why not go give out to BT sites for posting this release in the first place? After all, many scene release groups would prefer to NOT see their files on P2P networks or on BT sites, that doesn't change the fact that they are posted anyway.

But anyways, enough about that, :-) I gotta go write you guys some more news now ;-) If I offended anyone in any ways, send me a PM and we'll talk :-)

Personally, I thrive on the post about leaked albums. I don't have the time to search around for the info (length, quality, name, .ect) on the legit downloads (so I can stay away from fakes). I come to AD and everythings done for me.

Keep up the superb work Dela!
Ced

wat up w/the people hatin on 50, saying it's crap music: he is one of the best rappers out. ne way either way it goes he will get paid because there are so many people in the world and although there are a lot of bootleggers, it's not nearly enough to make sells plumet to the point of no profit.

haha. stupid black man

All their bitching is really sort of dumb. They will make tons of cash even if a few savvy people who also listen to them (very few) download the album.
@Dela, hah, I understand, those greedy "artists" that constantly moan about leaking... and I think you use too many smilies :-)

"victim"???

Whatever. 50 Cent and his label are getting "victimized" all the way to the bank.

i just find it funny when you think about how many people listen to 50 cent. how many of those people can relate to growing up in southside jamacia queens? how many people really know whats its like to live in a ghetto, or the struggles they face? im betting its less than 10%. kids listen to him because its the "cool" thing to do and its very mainstream. i was rasied in orange county, california (yeah, like that piece of crap TV show) which is a very affluent area, yet you cant drive down a street without hearing some teenager blasting 50 cent in the BMW daddy bought them. pretty sad really. people buy his music not because its good but because its whats cool... but its not like the record label will complain about that.

That is what i was bitching about early in this thread. Bzboarder , I could not have put it better :)

Hey Dela,

I liked this news column so phooey to the rest that didnt. Now im gonna go download it. Cya!

I agree.Tryhard punk kids..

Mainstream society really pisses me off sometimes...really more like all the time, actually.

I just wanted to say to bzoarder; That I grew up in a situation similar to 50's and just want to say is that's the great thing about music, artist make it and people take it and interrupt it to their live, so you don't have to be in a person's situation to understand them or apply what they've learned and shared to your life. That's all I have to say ....

just be yourself,
LLT

I just wanted to say to bzoarder; That I grew up in a situation similar to 50's and just want to say is that's the great thing about music, artist make it and people take it and interrupt it to their live, so you don't have to be in a person's situation to understand them or apply what they've learned and shared to your life. That's all I have to say ....

just be yourself,
LLT

I THINK THAT 50 CEBT IS ONE OF THE BEST RAPPERS ALIVE AND ALL U HATERS OUT THERE ARE JUST MAD AT HIM

Fuckup nOOb!

Man fuck it. It's not big news for an album to be leaked anymore because so many people are sharing. Even MTV made something called the "The Leak", where you can go and listen to a selected new album online, but connot download which makes ir legal. I think they should have thought of doing that first before Napster came out. This is just another conflict that the record labels have to deal with or change the ranking value of all music charts. (By the way Get Rich or Die Tryin' is better, The Massacre won't sell more. It won't sell much just because Get Rich or Die Tryin' was better, but also because it wasn't leaked unlike The Massacre.)