What doesn’t appear to be up for debate is that Death Grips pre-released its album without the permission of its label, Epic, part of Sony Music - one of the three remaining major labels. So reports that the leaked album was the item that made Death Grips so popular on BitTorrent are not accurate. Update: Death Grips’ publicist tells us, “As I understand that data, it was compiled before the release of the most recent album.” BitTorrent confirms that the 34-million-plus “legal” downloads occurred before Death Grips leaked its new album. So either BitTorrent was talking about Death Grips’ previously-released music, in which case the leaked album would have nothing to do with the band’s impressive download count, or reports that Death Grips leaked its album to via BitTorrent on October 1 are wrong. However, BitTorrent told Evolver.fm that it pulled the data leading to the above chart on September 19.

Death Grips reportedly leaked its No Love Deep Web album on October 1. Death Grips’ music was downloaded over 34 million times over the BitTorrent protocol earlier this year, after which BitTorrent (the company) proclaim that Death Grips topped the list of “legal” downloads over the network, which has a reputation for trafficking in music without permission. SACREMENTO, CA ( Hypebot) - The artist with the most popular 'legal' download on BitTorrent was just dropped for leaking his album.

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