Hacker Gets Suspended Prison Sentence for Selling Unreleased Music

[ultrablvd]

  On 1/4/2025 at 8:19 PM, American Whore said:

the name seems familiar to me from a different thing and if it's who i think it is, good riddance. she can rot in there. 

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it’s a suspended sentence, meaning she wont go to prison as long as she abides by her sentence conditions & she doesn't reoffend in that period. basically, as long as she is on good behaviour she will avoid jail

 

  On 1/4/2025 at 8:25 PM, Brooklyn Fetus said:

girls can we stop pretending we dont wish they have lanas unleaked tracks- hopefully he can leak a few for us lipsters <3

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i don't think she liked lana 

[Brooklyn Fetus]

  On 1/4/2025 at 8:25 PM, ultrabanisters said:

i don't think she liked lana 

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ugh... let me go on deep web look for some lust for life outtakes 

[blackenedrussianpoetry]

  On 1/4/2025 at 8:07 PM, ultrabanisters said:

tb to fingertips and tunnel being sold before they got put on ocean blvd and they had those horrendous tags over them

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That was crazy as fuck

the snippets leaked before lana really finishes the album and whoever shared it said that it was BB outtake… i dont know. The timing of when the snippets were shared was mindboggling 

[Honeytrails]

deserves for profiting off of them

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unreleased music is always such a weird moral thing because some stuff simply isn’t obtainable in an unethical way like Dark City supposedly just being on the studio backup data and someone had it and shared it but also

 

some artists would not be who they are without… the lore that unreleased music has created for them. Like Charli or Lana… and a part of me feels like they operate knowing that there’s a large chance of whatever they do will get leaked and so they curate songs that expand their lore and mythical world

 

[The Stargirl Pinky]

The right person will incarcerate

[Demonmic03]

Glad this is happening and they're getting charged. However, as lots of people have said listening to leaks doesn't make you a bad person or not a real fan

Edited January 4 by Lana Del Dufrene

[Candy Necklace]

Leaking/listening to unreleased music where no one profits = good (in my books)

 

someone besides the artists/producers/labels makes money for a song they did NOTHING on = bad

[dexter]

tbh most unleaked lana songs are sold many times before they end up on here ?

[RIP ivory almond]

  On 1/4/2025 at 7:27 PM, ultrabanisters said:

i never understood this thought process bc imagine i said to you 'should have installed titanium grates on your windows' after someone breaks into your house like that is on the person who broke in not on me

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maybe my understanding of how leaks happen is wrong, but I always thought they usually start with someone close to lana's circle just passing it down the line to more and more people until someone eventually releases it publicly; it's not like anyone is actually invading or taking from Lana, they're just receiving and giving in a chain reaction; if the first circle of people that the song is available to is smaller and securer like Taylor's, then the songs wouldn't be so easily passed; i do understand how there are some instances of actual stealing like phishing links or her laptop being stolen, but I'm pretty sure those are the minority of leaks, right?

[That Venice Bitch]

  On 1/4/2025 at 10:40 PM, ivory almond said:

i do understand how there are some instances of actual stealing like phishing links or her laptop being stolen, but I'm pretty sure those are the minority of leaks, right?

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no lol

 

i mean sure maybe occasionally some things leak very passively but if it’s not being hacked or stolen from Lana herself it’s being hacked or stolen from producers etc

[ultrablvd]

  On 1/4/2025 at 10:40 PM, ivory almond said:

maybe my understanding of how leaks happen is wrong, but I always thought they usually start with someone close to lana's circle just passing it down the line to more and more people until someone eventually releases it publicly; it's not like anyone is actually invading or taking from Lana, they're just receiving and giving in a chain reaction; if the first circle of people that the song is available to is smaller and securer like Taylor's, then the songs wouldn't be so easily passed; i do understand how there are some instances of actual stealing like phishing links or her laptop being stolen, but I'm pretty sure those are the minority of leaks, right?

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from what i understand, the problem is that most of the time it isnt as ethical as that. they are stolen in ways including by hacking networks, hacking private accounts, coercing people working on the music, and as you say, phishing. the end point is that it is not their music to sell, period, no matter how it is obtained

[American Whore]

  On 1/4/2025 at 8:25 PM, ultrabanisters said:

it’s a suspended sentence, meaning she wont go to prison as long as she abides by her sentence conditions & she doesn't reoffend in that period. basically, as long as she is on good behaviour she will avoid jail

 

i don't think she liked lana 

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damn. well i guess this means nothing 

[RIP ivory almond]

  On 1/4/2025 at 11:04 PM, That Venice Bitch said:

no lol

i mean sure maybe occasionally some things leak very passively but if it’s not being hacked or stolen from Lana herself it’s being hacked or stolen from producers etc

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  On 1/4/2025 at 11:07 PM, ultrabanisters said:

from what i understand, the problem is that most of the time it isnt as ethical as that. they are stolen in ways including by hacking networks, hacking private accounts, coercing people working on the music, and as you say, phishing. the end point is that it is not their music to sell, period, no matter how it is obtained

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oh wow, I didn't realize it was that conniving/illegal, that makes more sense now

[American Whore]

  On 1/4/2025 at 11:36 PM, ivory almond said:

 

oh wow, I didn't realize it was that conniving/illegal, that makes more sense now

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that's how some stuff leaked, but some stuff was directly stolen from lana. back in 2012/2013, her laptop got "hacked" through a hotel wifi that wasn't secure. and then in 2022/2023 she had that infamous laptop theft from her truck along with the camera that had chunk's footage on it 

 

edit to add context, i believe that's how the untouchable 5 leaked and some others some years later, specifically the reddit leaks that happened around 2013/2014 or so. wayamaya was part of that, when the leaker claimed it was only the bottom of the barrel. we got a few leaks from them but they claimed to have much more but i don't know if we ever got all of what was included from that theft or not or what happened to that leaker. 

[longtimeman]

  On 1/4/2025 at 5:48 PM, Beauty King said:

She was just extremely arrogant and assumed nobody would care about the thefts, since so many other hackers are actively stealing material every day and rarely get caught.

 

Case in point: she was obsessed with the artist Upsahl and used to go into Upsahl’s Instagram livestreams to terrorize her by talking about her unreleased songs. It was actually psychotic behavior.

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A certain person here did the same sort of 'in you face' thing to Lana a while back too, so we're not immune from it.

[Beauty King]

  On 1/4/2025 at 11:58 PM, American Whore said:

 

edit to add context, i believe that's how the untouchable 5 leaked

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Incorrect, actually. Those songs leaked because Rick Nowels' personal website was not secure. He uploaded dozens of songs from various artists onto a server linked to his website, for his personal use, but it was not password protected. It wasn't linked directly on his site, but if you poked around in the source code a bit, you could easily find a link to the file-hosting area of the site. It was trivial to do; five minutes of work, if that. Once you were there, it was basically just a detailed list of downloadable files sorted by year. He eventually went in and did some individual password protection of files for only two artists: Lykke Li and Lana. The damage had already been done by the time that happened, though, as people had known about this security flaw for months prior and the files had been heavily spread.

 

With regard to the rest of your post, though, it's mostly correct, but it misses the context that her email accounts were compromised around the same time as the laptop hack and material from both circulated heavily. As far as I'm aware, we have the vast majority of what was found by the hackers from both of those sources and most of what's left is just barely distinct alternate versions and demos.

 

Edit: Also, the theft of her laptop in the 2020s hasn't resulted in any leaked material. It wasn't stolen to get any music files, but rather because it was left in a car and it had intrinsic value. We know for a fact that she was able to remotely wipe it, too.

[rancidgirl]

been on this !!! 

 

[American Whore]

  On 1/5/2025 at 12:15 AM, Beauty King said:

 

Incorrect, actually. Those songs leaked because Rick Nowels' personal website was not secure. He uploaded dozens of songs from various artists onto a server linked to his website, for his personal use, but it was not password protected. It wasn't linked directly on his site, but if you poked around in the source code a bit, you could easily find a link to the file-hosting area of the site. It was trivial to do; five minutes of work, if that. Once you were there, it was basically just a detailed list of downloadable files sorted by year. He eventually went in and did some individual password protection of files for only two artists: Lykke Li and Lana. The damage had already been done by the time that happened, though, as people had known about this security flaw for months prior and the files had been heavily spread.

 

With regard to the rest of your post, though, it's mostly correct, but it misses the context that her email accounts were compromised around the same time as the laptop hack and material from both circulated heavily. As far as I'm aware, we have the vast majority of what was found by the hackers from both of those sources and most of what's left is just barely distinct alternate versions and demos.

 

Edit: Also, the theft of her laptop in the 2020s hasn't resulted in any leaked material. It wasn't stolen to get any music files, but rather because it was left in a car and it had intrinsic value. We know for a fact that she was able to remotely wipe it, too.

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i completely forgot that this happened, thank you for adding that info. it's been a long time since all of that happened 

[The Stargirl Pinky]

  On 1/5/2025 at 1:37 AM, rancidgirl said:

been on this !!! 

 

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[ultrablvd]

yeah rick was a lil dvmb for leaving the files like that but i still wouldn't see that as a justification for taking those files and selling them if that happened in the same manner to another artist. i could lose something whilst i’m out and it would count as theft for someone to then appropriate it as their own, so i don’t see why exceptions are made for digital files or art