La Servicio Marítimo Guardia Civil Spanish has arrested a person who allegedly leaked on the Internet the latest album of Extreme called 'For all audiences'before it went on sale. The detainee worked in the companies dedicated to the manufacture and distribution of the disc, and leaked the album from his home and his job, said the Civil Guard, about an operation nicknamed "Agila" in honor to one of the albums of the veteran band, and developed in Madrid and the towns of Alcorcón and Móstoles.
The agents, after performing two searches, recovered the digitized files from the disk, which increased activity in some file-sharing networks by more than 1.000 percent, according to the Civil Guard and the group of Music Producers of Spain, Promusicae. In addition to allowing access to the disk through the download websites, the detainee offered physical copies for 10 euros, according to Promusicae.
«The manager of the band himself contacted the advertiser to demand that he remove the ad and return the copy allegedly stolen. Faced with his refusal, the group denounced the events and the Agila operation was triggered, "Promusicae said in a statement.
Extremoduro's record company was forced to advance the publication date of the work by 20 days after leaking on the Internet. A Gfk report for Promusicae estimates that Spain loses € 542 million a year to music piracy, whose recorded music market has fallen 72 percent since 2001.
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Via - Reuters