Offspring’s new plan
The offspring cuts plans denied to offer to their new album, “conspiracy of one,” for the free remote loading before her release in blinds.
The decision, catch Thursday harm, finished have two days the legal spacer between the punk band and its group of label, the music of Sony, which désapprové the plane of remote loading. Each side had projected known the other.
“We were at two seconds far from having has “the tank continues the” end with this matter,” directing Jim of offspring that Guerinot wrote in E-mail of year with sonicnet.com one Friday. “Us both had lawsuits ready to be dropped in morning from New York Friday. ”
The offspring always designed to offer initially has free MP3 of the individual of the album S, “mischievous original,” beginning Friday. To have the share of promotion, register of edge of ventilators to gain $1 million — competition for A-grade officials at the dependent beginning with the offer envisaged of full-album has (see the “offspring to offer the new album, $1 in line million”). The individual the remote loading will be available by the official site of the band S, offspring.com, has to have other exits of Web good, including MTV.com, sites by radio of station, and sites with the detail.
The music of Sony, which has the label of Offspring S, Colombia, had projected to seek the injunction of year against the band and has provisional order retaining. While waiting, the offspring had prepared has the infringement of the countersuit of contract. Left signed has the stop Wednesday to declare the agreement at the period of 48 hours waiting and puts to discuss the point in the offices of New York of Sony, Guerinot known as.
The offspring finally agreed not to release the album on line because the lawsuits of the cuts paralysing, Guerinot known as. Sony follows cuts prevented the band from proceeding to its plans to offer the album on line and the ve of would denied the contest $1 million for ventilators. Offspring S follows cuts prevented the band from releasing the “conspiracy of one” this year and the ve of would delayed projected the turn.
The “individual the band and me estimated that the part of what we try to achieve produces in addition to being downloaded it, and to sacrifice our promotion of ventilator, the release of album, and the turn too were right,” Guerinot known as.
“It sucks,” it said, because the people of ounce obtain with their hands music, ventilators want cuts to turn to Napster and other methods of distribution to the catch has to listen, goal which they will not be blanchailles to find the songs at www.offspring.com. “We will be the only site Web which not cuts the new music of Offspring S.”
