to clear the situation:
The fact few songs could be leaked on youtube, push people to know that files are now downloadable on the net !! THen some stupid ppl look for it, download them and keep them on sharing directory on bittorend, emule, edonkey !! This is bad, very bad !!! The stats we know in the business is, what ever numbers of fans in the world is, when an album is "available" on the net 1 month before it's street date release, it's a lost of 50% sales !!!! Peter is very sad of the situation, because, we already know that the budget we spended on this album will never get back !!! Means, we gonna loose money with it !!! Then, the fact is, the record company could decide to not sign a new album with hypo !!! And makes peter loose his motivation for the hypocrisy's future !! THen we will all lose something:
Me, my job with hypo, because they won't have any more budget for my work,
Peter, his band an money,
Fans: a Great Band !!!
I had a long conversation with him today, he lost his motivation and locked himself in his studio thinking as if their is any future on producing music !!
Peter knows, that real fans like you already ordered the album, and real fans will buy this album. But it's not enough (we have stats) to get more than 40% of the budget we spended on it. Usually, it's the "other" external "customer" could make the difference back !! But as they aren't Great fans like you, they won't buy the album if they can have it for free on the net. Think about that : when you want a beer, you buy it, you don't steal it !! Then, why steal a CD !!??
I stopped the production of the trailer now, the new one Hypo and I make for last promo and fans, as it's now a waste of money for nothing. Also, the music Video is now postpone, as we are not sure to get any budget for it.
Any way, thank you for supporting us !!
It 's sure it makes piss me off too and i will probabilly try to forget that with few beers and get me drunk.
Denis Goria.