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How do people who work at cd manufacturing plants leak cd's?

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited August 2009 in Other Music
This seems to be a major way cd's get leaked. But my question is how? Do workers get advance copies of records to keep as an incentive for working at the plant?

Or do the workers steal the record? And if this is the case, how are they able to get away with it? I would think there would be alot of security, cameras and personnel, and that bands especially nowadays would hire people to make sure that they plants didnt allow people to steal/leak the albums.

How is this able to happen?
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  • TravelarTravelar Kalamazoo, USA Posts: 3,413
    It's not just the people that work at these plants. There are a lot of people involved in making and producing a record. You have sound engineers, people involved in mastering and production of the disc, band members who give friends advance copies, and even couriers that have access to the information. In this digital age, it isn't hard to stick a USB stick into a computer and siphon what you want.
  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    Many albums are leaked through promo copies sent to radio sations, music mags differnt media etc....
  • voodoopugvoodoopug Posts: 1,011
    There are also instances where the bands themselves "leak" tracks to generate press....mostly found in rap, but I'd be surprised if all genres don't do it.
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.
  • TravelarTravelar Kalamazoo, USA Posts: 3,413
    voodoopug wrote:
    There are also instances where the bands themselves "leak" tracks to generate press....mostly found in rap, but I'd be surprised if all genres don't do it.

    It's worked well for NIN and Radiohead.
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