The band Buckcherry issued a press release blaming pirates for leaking their music. After investigation, it was found that Buckcherry leaked it themselves.

The band Buckcherry issued a press release blaming pirates for leaking their music. After investigation, it was found that Buckcherry leaked it themselves.

The first single from Buckcherry’s 2008 album “Black Butterlfy” called “Too drunk…” was leaked through BitTorrent. The program is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used to distribute large amounts of data over the Internet. It is one of the most common file sharing programs there is on the Internet today. 

Right after the song was leaked, the band put the blame on Internet pirates in a press release. They lamented on how much they hated things like this happening, because they wanted their fans to receive their music first. Wait, there is more! The site TorrentFreak investigated Buckcherry’s claim. 

The IP address that uploaded the song had only uploaded that one song. They used WikiScanner to find that the IP address matched the address of a recent updater of Buckcherry’s Wikipedia page. 

They emailed Josh Klemme, the band’s manager and found it to be the same as the Wikipedia page updater. TorrentFreak came to the conclusion that they had leaked their own song for publicity’s sake. 

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Many Somali pirates used to be fishermen who had their waters overfished and contaminated by foreigners.

Many Somali pirates used to be fishermen who had their waters overfished and contaminated by foreigners.

Ever since the civil war that brought down Somali’s last functional government in 1991, the Somali waters have become the equivalent of a public pool. They are open to fishing fleets from around the world to illegally take the fishermen’s stocks and occasionally use as a dump. 

According to a UN report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country’s coastline each year. Naturally, when people can’t trust the law anymore, they take matters into their own hands. Impoverished Somalis living by the sea have been forced to defend their waters out of ports such as Eyl, Kismayo, and Haradhere. 

All of these ports are considered pirate dens, and all the people just trying to make ends meet are considered deadly, lawless vermin. 

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