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Sep
The Rolling Stones first album in eight years has been illegally posted on the internet a week before its original release.
Music fans have now been able to download most of the album – A Bigger Bang – from several websites.
Although it is officially released on Monday, the illegal posting could cost the band millions in record sales.
Mick Jagger and the band are the latest in a line of artists, including U2, Eminem and Oasis, to fall prey to internet pirates.
A spokesperson for EMI, the Stones’ record company, said: “The first low-quality files of new Rolling Stones music were found on Monday. It is actually a major achievement to keep an album secure until this close to the commercial release date.”
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