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Friday, April 18, 2003
A message from Madonna: Don't share her songs
Sharing must not be part of Madonna's Kabala faith because she is clamping down something fierce on online peer-to-peer piracy of her new album, "American Life," (due April 22).
Her people are flooding file-sharing networks with decoy sound files, and those who download tracks from such services as KaZaA are greeted by the voice of Madonna asking, "What the f ---- do you think you're doing?"
Other ways she's controlling the release of the "American Life": No advances are being sent to journalists; instead, in what has become a common practice, writers were asked to listen to the record at the office of Madonna's publicist.
She's also not allowing her music to be rented out via subscription services like MusicNet, Pressplay and Rhapsody.
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