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THE DARKNESS Singer Tackles eBay Leak Of New Album

November 9, 2005

BBC News is reporting that THE DARKNESS singer Justin Hawkins paid £350 (approx. $610) for a copy of his own band's new album on eBay a month before its release to stop it being leaked.

The CD was sent to a small number of record company figures and journalists around the world but found its way onto the auction site in Australia, he said.

Hawkins plans to find the culprit by using the CD's unique ID code.

The band's second album, "One Way Ticket To Hell... And Back", will be released on November 28 in the U.K.

"I've bought our own album back off this character who's selling it on eBay," the singer told the BBC News web site.

"It cost me £350 and it's going to be a tenner when it's in the shops — with artwork.

"It's encoded so we'll have a name and a number — so we'll know which disc it is, who distributed it and who they distributed it to. And that person is going to go down.

"He is either going to get some sort of legal intervention or he certainly won't receive an album from our record company ever again."

Hawkins said the band had been stringent with who they had given the album to in the U.K.

Drummer Ed Graham added that the culprit "should really be sacked" if it is someone in the music business.

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI),which represents U.K. record labels, said the scale of counterfeit and unauthorized selling on eBay had got "out of hand".

"Time and again, we have seen eBay being abused by individuals seeking to make a quick profit on the back of our members' copyrights," a BPI spokesman said.

"One Way Ticket To Hell... And Back" is hotly anticipated after the band's 2003 debut, "Permission to Land", sold 3.5 million copies around the world.

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