is doing something now that's restricted, Adele and Taylor Swift - I mean, this is becoming a thing. RESNIKOFF: There's actually quite a long list now. Piracy didn't go away, and it's always this beast that can jump out when stuff is restricted or not spread out ubiquitously.ĬORNISH: So when we say restrictions or limitations, what do you mean? What other artists have tried this? And you say that basically any time an artist restricts content (laughter) in any way, it's like waving a flag to the pirates. Depending on who's estimating, that number's easily crossed into the multimillions since that point.ĬORNISH: And you've written about the rise in kind of BitTorrent-based and other piracy kind of streaming platforms. Well, initially in the first 24 hours, initial reports pointed to half a million illegal downloads happening in that very short span. So far, what we know about Kanye's album, 'The Life Of Pablo,' in terms of, like, illegal downloads? Paul Resnikoff is publisher of Digital Music News, and he joins us now. All right, so when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot.

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