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Originally posted by simon
Ok, that's understandable. I have friends who work for artists that have given me songs in advance as well. Just hope you're more careful man. I mean, your website is called MartianLeaks. Lol.
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It was called MartianLeaks. I made the decision to change the site to MartianTV just to get away from the stigma surround that word.
Our site has never literally leaked anything. We just have our way of staying on top of leaks. The only thing we've done that was frowned up was sharing the leaks that we found. A lot of the time even the FBI couldn't find a site that posted leaks before us, so we literally had to subpoena records from Twitter and Tumblr to get proof that the original leak didn't come from us. In the end, we were fined, but the fine was "forgiven" because I showed up to court, admitted to what was going on and agreed to move away from facilitation of the leaks and change the site around (take down old links). I had to surrender my phone and my laptop to the FBI permanently. It's all really less dramatic then it sounds. I probably spent about 3 hours dealing with it in comparison to my friend who spent a week or so in jail, and had to spend thousands in the court cost and got slapped with a $20,000 fine.
I honestly never wanted to have anything to do with the Beyoncé leaks. I just happened to hear a few things before it all went down and opening my mouth got me in trouble.
That's why I let B. Scott go ahead and take the Scream & Shout leak and just tweeted about the it a lot before it was posted.