There is a new song by Madonna’s that got leaked and obviously ended up on p2p file-sharing networks. I’m not familiar with the specifics of the song itself. The interesting tidbit is that a decoy song also got leaked. It’s a mostly empty track containing the following prose by the artist herself:

« What the fuck do you think you’re doing? »

It’s supposedly been offered with a attractive name on filesharing networks.

It’s been reported by Billboard, Arstechnica, BiPlog
and many many others .

Well I got curious and I managed to find the decoy file. It was named « MADONNA-AMERICAN LIFE- LOVE PROFUSION-New.mp3 ».

Now I wonder… This was obviously put on a p2p sharing network by the rights holder. Under what kind of licence is it released? Until further notice, I’ll consider that there is an implicit licence to redistribute attached to this work. But just in case, I’ll stick to providing you with a small excerpt of the 4:33 original track.

I’ll let you discuss on the implications and the rationale behind the release of such decoys.