Party's Over For Nodatta

I hate writing these posts.

In the past hour, nodatta.blogspot.com shut down for good. In the past few years, there hasn't been another blog that could rival the services provided by nodatta. I doubt anyone upped as many albums in the past few years as the guys who ran the site. Just about anything you couldn't find anywhere else could be found at nodatta. It is quite a shame. What's worse, I heard that the reason they shut down might be because they upped the new Mars Volta album that had leaked. Not sure if that is true, but if it is, Mars Volta is a bad reason to have to shut down.

No more OiNK.
No more Albumbase.
No more nodatta.

The big guys are falling hard.

Days of the Leak

Spin.com has a great article up concerning music leaks. It really is the first article I've seen that makes mention of zip file sites like You Send It, Megaupload, and Rapidshare, which I think are much more involved in leaks than anyone in the media realizes. Just go check out Radiohead fansite Ateaseweb if you don't believe me. Sure, more people probably use P2P sites, but I have a feeling that if you don't use OiNK, you're on something like Albumbase, which I really like. Once again, great writeup.