In early August I was driving home from my vocal lesson when I turned on the radio to listen to some music. Instead of music, I was listening to Music News on the Pulse and the first thing I heard was: “Atlantic Records goes to Supreme Court over Suicide Squad track.” They we talking about the then new 21 Pilots song Heathens for the movie soundtrack of Suicide Squad. They were talking about how technically the song hadn’t been released but leaked 9 days prior to the official release resulting in millions of downloads on thousands of platforms when it was supposed to be officially released on June 24.
Personally, I found it strange that platforms like Spotify and Google Play had already allowed people to listen to and/ or purchase the song and now, Atlantic Records was threatening to sue and/ or prosecute every fan that downloaded the track. However, Atlantic never looked at the fact that they had released the track to a select group of people beforehand making the leak an inside job and making their threats of a lawsuits on the fans go away.
Personally, I found it strange that platforms like Spotify and Google Play had already allowed people to listen to and/ or purchase the song and now, Atlantic Records was threatening to sue and/ or prosecute every fan that downloaded the track. However, Atlantic never looked at the fact that they had released the track to a select group of people beforehand making the leak an inside job and making their threats of a lawsuits on the fans go away.
The leak came from a Reddit user by the name of twentyoneheathens who released it through a Dropfile link and when Atlantic demanded Reddit to hand over the IP address of the user, Reddit refused and said that Dropfile should be responsible. What do you think they should do? Who do you think is truly responsible for the leak? And is Supreme Court really necessary?
Here is a link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprcpdwuwCg
I think that it is stupid that the Supreme Court would rule something like that. I mean if the song has racist or sexist words in it I would be concerned. If not, pretty stupid
ReplyDeleteThough I do not know much about the justice system in the United States, I find it surprising that this particular case made it to the Supreme Court. What is also interesting is the fact that the song was leaked in the first place. After all, there is not much financial incentive in leaking a song.If it were leaked for personal reasons, than the person responsible probably did not think about the consequences of their actions. And why would companies support/ let the song be leaked? Even now, in the midst of a Supreme Court case, the companies haven't been forthcoming with their knowledge about what happened. And, why did Atlantic threaten to take action, if they may have been responsible for the leak in the first place? Ultimately, this case is really interesting, because leaks are (fairly) common, and they are not normally previewed by the Supreme Court.
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