Here's an interesting story.
There was a post punk band called Inner City Unit who were around in the early - mid 80s. In 1985 they spilt up for good. the last thing ever to be released by them was the CD reissues of their albums in 1989.
A couple of years ago their guitarist & main songwriter Dead Fred decided he wants to put up 2 of their albums as free downloads on his own website with a bunch of demos for unrecorded songs and a tape of a gig he had.
Guess what , his old record company told him to take his own recordings down before they took court action on him . Even though those albums have been unavailable for well over 15 years and they have no plans to re-issue any of them because there's no demand and they would probably lose money on it.
So yes , it's getting so bad even musicians who want you to hear their stuff free are getting hassled over it.
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