Almost everyone knows by now that Opeth's Watershed has been leaked a couple months before it's release date... as has pretty much every album worth caring about over the years.
When an album that people have been waiting years to hear is leaked months before it is supposed to, I think this is what drives some people to pirate it even though they otherwise wouldn't, and once you have the album you kinda forget all about that "release date" technicality whenever the time actually comes, especially if the album isn't what you'd hoped (*ahem*).
What I don't understand is why they don't just release the album when it's done instead of sitting on it for a few months while a majority of the people that actually care to hear it are doing so for free... I can't really see it as being beneficial for artists to deny people the right of owning a legit copy of the album when it's done, mixed, packaged, and already being listened to by a bunch of other people.
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