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The most entertaining music piracy story this week concerns the leaking of four new U2 tracks online. Why? Because the source of the leak was allegedly Bono himself. Not in the way you think, though. Apparently the frontman was playing the music loud in his South France villa, and a passerby recorded them and uploaded (more…)

Music 2.0 site Imeem has been in with U2 for a while now, with its latest deal being to stream the new remastered versions of Boy, October and War for free via U2’s profile on its site. The albums aren’t due out until next week, so it’s an early exclusive - and more sign of Imeem’s strategy to build an audience via such deals (others it’s worked with in this way include Radiohead, New Order and the Rolling Stones).

MidemNet 2008: U2 Manager Paul McGuinness speaks