Daily U2 News Digest for 2009-02-18

delicious (feed #6) 8:37pm Video: The Edge and Bono on Access Hollywood
delicious (feed #6) 8:38pm No Line On The Horizon (Digital Album) leaks on official Universal Australia download site
delicious (feed #6) 1:44am Win kaartjes voor een intiem optreden van U2 in Londen (Dutch)
delicious (feed #6) 5:50am Photo: Bono at the Brits rehearsals
delicious (feed #6) 5:51am Photo: Bono silhouette against Union Jack backdrop
delicious (feed #6) 5:52am Photo: Eyeliner & Edge
delicious (feed #6) 5:55am U2 Live at The BRITs tonight
delicious (feed #6) 9:01am U2 to appear on BBC’s The Culture Show (24 Feb 2009, 22:00 on BBC Two)
delicious (feed #6) 12:03pm What The U2 Leak Says About Music Biz
delicious (feed #6) 1:15pm Facebook: "Hey Universal, don’t fire the guy that leaked the new U2 album…"
generic (feed #25) 2:39pm U2 – GET ON YOUR BOOTS (LIVE AT BRITs 2009)
generic (feed #25) 2:41pm U2 – Get On Your Boots – Live at The Brit Awards 2009

Universal Australia’s giant FUBAR

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So if you were up early. Or late. Or just… up, you may have been awake for the brief window of time during which getmusic.com.au, which is Universal Australia’s official download platform (!), accidentally sold mp3 downloads of all of the songs on U2’s No Line on the Horizon, more than a week before its official release. Not just for Australian customers… this international cat used Paypal to legally get her paws on the album.

Brief review? Lovin’ it.

According to atu2.com it wasn’t even the first leak. It’s just that nobody noticed the first one. For a few days, the songs were available individually on Napster Mobile. Apparently, not a whole lot of people use that – legal – service.

We hope you got lucky too. Let us know what you think of the album.

Nice: U2 fans are pleading with the web shop not to fire the guy that caused the leak. (Update: fans’ comments have been removed from the site!)