I contribute to the webzine that this case is centred around and even though I am posting too late for most to see this, I thought on the off chance that someone may read this that I would post something.
I am not gonna give the name of the website because of the condemnation it would automatically being. Under usual circumstances it would be justified...not in this case though. Well, at least not to the guy that Karl is thinking about.
The guy running the site has been doing it a long time, first in printed format and then web based. He has also put thousands of dollars into this venture over the years and does not make any money from it....no one does really, but it is a real labour of love for him.
So why leak the album? Well, it's like this - he gets a LOT of stuff from all over and obviously cannot take care of everything himself so he delegates to contributors. He has a lot of those.
So, there was one contributor who got both the Nile and Hypocrisy albums. It was the contributor who is responsible for the leak...or rather, he somehow gave access to it through some group he is in that do just that...share emails (with attached zip files) of certain stuff that they then upload.
The guy who is being pursued by Nuclear Blast (the files were watermarked with his name) refuses to download at all and has an extensive CD and vinyl collection.
Of course, it might seem as if I am saying this just to defend him but it is actually true.
Certain bands or albums he will buy on CD and vinyl, he's a real collector. Ironic that it is him who is under the microscope now.
Anyway, he has pleaded the case to Nuclear Blast, they are very pissed off...understandably so...and he has probably lost his relationship with them but latest, as far as I understand, is that if the contributor will not give the name of the guy who did the actual upload then his name (the contributor) will be given to Blast.
Hahaha, ovo je potpuno ludilo, na kraju će ladno neko odavde najebati.